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Photographers and reporters are mostly after me. They want to know what I read and what I'm like and I don't really know myself, so how can I tell them?

After How Know Like
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I know there are people who don't like their audience or like the experience of being recognized or celebrated, but my audience has been very good - they don't bother me and when they do contact me it's usually on the nicest possible terms.

Audience Been Being Bother
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A concert is always like a feast day to me.
Always Concert Day Feast
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When I was growing up in Terrell, Texas, I felt that it was not where I was supposed to be. I knew that I was meant for a different destination. I think that the minute I was born, there was something inside telling me where I would go, it's like energy - an intangible destiny.

Born Destination Destiny Different
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I've been a sports fan all my life, and like most other actors, I'm convinced I could have been a pro athlete if Hollywood hadn't come calling.

Actor All My Life Athlete Been
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My worst hair experience was when I was trying to relax my hair and my grandmother did it. It went all straight and I looked like a black Bee Gee.

Bee Black Did Experience
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To be the leading man it's about the celebrity and the looks, and it's tough to do that. People who do it great are people like Tom Cruise and Will Smith - they're built for that. I ain't. I'm more of a character guy.

About Built Celebrity Character
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If I'm in the studio, I'm completely on music. I try to go to that place and that's the toughest thing for me to do. When I'm with other musicians, sometimes I go back to, almost like, childhood, because that's what I always wanted to be.

Almost Always Back Because
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I try to be as honest and open as I am with everything that I do because it's just, um, It helps me, you know, like whether it's stand up or singing or act. I just try to stay true.

Act Am Because Everything
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I would say my grandmother would be like my personal god.
God Grandmother Like Personal
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With 'Django Unchained,' when you're dealing with slavery, it's like a gymnastics routine with the highest amount of difficulty. Quentin Tarantino is not going to do a movie that's just going to lay there and be safe. There's going to be twists and flips.

Amount Dealing Difficulty Flips
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I remember meeting President Obama and looking at him, thinking, 'Damn, this dude is really our president. He really went out and did it!' If you look at stories like that, and other stories that I'm sure you could compare to, it's just about freeing your mind and taking those guards down.

About Compare Could Damn
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I have about 20 to 25 platonic relationships with women all across the board from professional to artistic and they always give little clues on what they like.

About Across Always Artistic
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It's hard to be a celebrity nowadays. It's not about your track record anymore. If you have a great movie, you're good. If not, people are ready to write you off. I think the only ones who are really winning are people like Will Smith. People go, 'Oh, it's Will Smith. I've got to see him, whatever he's in.'

About Anymore Celebrity Go
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There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.
Comfort Home Like Nothing
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I feel I have to work hard to nurture whatever talent I have as an actor. I feel like it's not natural to me. So I don't take it for granted... What I think is my natural ability - which is writing - I think I totally take that for granted.

Ability Actor Feel Granted
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One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.

Another Best Good Like
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People think celebrities don't have to worry about human things like sickness and death and rent. It's like you've traveled to this Land of Celebrity, this other country.

Country Death Human Land
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Fame does lead to money, which I don't have a close relationship with. I'm the kind of guy who never sees the money - it all goes somewhere else. I don't understand it, I don't like to deal with it. I have a fear of not having it, because I grew up without it.

Close Deal Fame Fear
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Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then.

Being Crossed Girl Likes
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You're raising a kid and you give it food and shelter and, most importantly, you give it the feeling that it's special. I think people react to celebrities like that - I mean, they treat celebrities like children.

Celebrities Children Feeling Food
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I'm an assistant storyteller. It's like being a waiter or a gas-station attendant, but I'm waiting on six million people a week, if I'm lucky.

Assistant Attendant Being Like
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I don't want my wrinkles taken away - I don't want to look like everyone else.

Away Else Everyone Everyone Else
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I would have given up acting in a minute. I didn't like how it set me apart from other people.

Acting Apart Given How
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I have people in my life who will say, 'Honey, you're trying too hard.' I like being saucy, but I'm 73 and a half. I'm still trying to find my way between matronly and coltishness.

Being Between Find Half
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Teach a child English, French, German, etc, that's very good. No knowledge is ever a waste. But flogging a child for speaking his or her own language is totally unacceptable. Teach them to appreciate their own. Don't treat them like wild animals for speaking their language.

Teach A child Very good Knowledge
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Approaching a part or thinking about taking a part, I never think, 'Is that person like me?'

Never Part Person Taking
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Maybe the best things about celebrity are the things like being able to get that seat on the plane that you wouldn't normally get, but that's kind of like cheating.

Being Best Celebrity Cheating
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I don't like watching people work if they're making art.
Art Like Making People
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It's always like you write a poem when you can't really say what you're trying to say.

Trying Poem Write Really
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Generally, I don't like to walk out of a movie. It's like a relationship - you want to see it to the end; otherwise, you won't know if you left early or not.

Early End Know Left
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I feel like my honesty gives people the freedom to talk about things they wouldn't otherwise.

About Feel Freedom Gives
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I feel like when I was an adolescent, and felt so unworthy of love and so empty, I moved outside of myself.

Adolescent Empty Feel Felt
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If I had to play only for people who liked the music because they heard it on the radio, it wouldn't make me happy. That's why I'm working so hard to have, yes, a profile as an artist, but also a profile as a DJ.

Play Profile Radio Artist
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When I sing, I feel like when you're first in love. It's more than sex. It's that point two people can get to they call love, when you really touch someone for the first time, but it's gigantic, multiplied by the whole audience. I feel chills.

Audience Call Feel First
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I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.

Always Artist Chicks Like
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For these cultures, getting rid of the pain without addressing the deeper cause would be like shutting off a fire alarm while the fire's still going.

Alarm Cause Cultures Deeper
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TV's 'real' agenda is to be 'liked,' because if you like what you're seeing, you'll stay tuned. TV is completely unabashed about this; it's its sole raison.

Agenda Because Real Sole
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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.

Audiences Blues Like Miserable
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It can become an exercise in trying to get the reader to like and admire you instead of an exercise in creative art.

Admire Art Become Creative
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I think TV promulgates the idea that good art is just art which makes people like and depend on the vehicle that brings them the art.

Art Brings Depend Good
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It looks like you can write a minimalist piece without much bleeding. And you can. But not a good one.

Bleeding Good Like Looks
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I have my own religion. My conception of religion is being to the other fellow what you would like for him to be to you and do what you think is necessary to be the type of man that God could appreciate

Own religion My conception Fellow God
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I don't like mansions. They depress me. In fact, I even feel sorry for a rich husband and wife living in a forty-room mansion. They're obviously searching for something they don't have, such as happiness or the respect of others.

Don't like Mansions Depress me Rich husband
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Everybody has forgotten about showmanship. People don't look like rock stars any more. They just look like regular dudes off the street.

Everybody Look like Showmanship Rock stars
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I’m a mirror. If you’re cool with me, I’m cool with you, and the exchange starts. What you see is what you reflect. If you don’t like what you see, then you’ve done something. If I’m standoffish, that’s because you are.

Mirror Exchange starts You see Done something
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You make your first album, you make some money, and you feel like you still have to show face, like ‘I still go to the projects.’ I’m like, why? Your job is to inspire people from your neighborhood to get out. You grew up there. What makes you think it’s so cool?

You make Some money Show face Inspire people
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I collect art, and I drink wine… things that I like that I had never been exposed to. But I never said, ‘I’m going to buy art to impress this crowd.’ That’s just ridiculous to me. I don’t live my life like that, because how could you be happy with yourself?

Collect art I drink wine Exposed
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One of the reasons inequality gets so deep in this country is that everyone wants to be rich. That’s the American ideal. Poor people don’t like talking about poverty because even though they might live in the projects surrounded by other poor people and have, like, ten dollars in the bank, they don’t like to think of themselves as poor.

Reasons Inequality Country Everyone
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My brands are an extension of me. They’re close to me. It’s not like running GM, where there’s no emotional attachment.

My brands Extension Emotional attachment
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