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Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question.

Different Driving Even Fiction
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I've never heard a man in a suit tell me what to wear; that's not their forte. You hire your stylist; whatever someone's image is as an artist is what they've chosen to portray.

Artist Chosen Forte Heard
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There's an obligation to not lead people down the wrong path, but I hardly think me wearing short shorts on stage is creating monsters.

Creating Down Hardly Lead
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You'd think that radio was around long enough that someone would have coined a word for staring into space.

Around Enough Long Radio
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In some theoretical way I know that a half-million people hear the show. But in a day-to-day way, there's not much evidence of it.

Day-To-Day Evidence Hear Know
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But sadly, one of the problems with being on public radio is that people tend to think you're being sincere all the time.

Being One Of The Problems People Problems
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When I say something untrue on the air, I mean for it to be transparently untrue. I assume people know when I'm just saying something for effect. Or to be funny.

Air Assume Effect Funny
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Any story hits you harder if the person delivering it doesn't sound like some news robot but in fact sounds like a real person having the reactions a real person would.

Any Delivering Fact Harder
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I don't own a radio. I listen to everything through apps or on my iPhone. And then I download the shows I like. Shows like 'Fresh Air', 'Radiolab', 'Snap Judgement', all those shows.

Air Apps Download Everything
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Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop.

Begin End Stop
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Actually, the best gift you could have given her was a lifetime of adventures.

Best Gift Lifetime Adventures
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While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger is too great of thus learning to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery, and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit

Laughter Joy Mockery Opportunities
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“I’d give all the wealth that years have piled, the slow result of life’s decay, to be once more a little child for one bright summer day.”

Wealth Piled Decay Bright
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“Courtesy while you’re thinking what to say. It saves me time.”
Courtesy Thinking Saves Time
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When you are describing, a shape, a sound, or tint; Don’t state the matter plainly, but put it in a hint; And learn to look at all things, with a sort of mental squint.

Shape Sound Tint Mental
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It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backward.

Poor Memory Backward
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I have played Dracula a thousand times on stage and I find I have become thoroughly settled in the technique of the stage and not of the screen.

Become Dracula Find Played
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“If you’ll believe in me, I’ll believe in you. Is that a bargain?”
Believe Bargain
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I have never met a vampire personally, but I don't know what might happen tomorrow.

Happen Know Met Might
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I don't have a dime left. I am dependent on my friends for food and a small old-age pension.

Am Dependent Dime Food
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Every actor is somewhat mad, or else he'd be a plumber or a bookkeeper or a salesman.

Actor Else Every He
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Circumstances made me the theatrical personality I am, which many people believe is also a part of my personal life.

Also Am Believe Circumstances
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Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy.

Accompany Because Europeans Heavy
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A screen actor is compensated in the knowledge that millions will see his performance at one time, where only hundreds will see it on the stage.

Actor His Hundreds Knowledge
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I really love baseball. The guys and the game, and I love the challenge of describing things. The only thing I hate - and I know you have to be realistic and pay the bills in this life - is the loneliness on the road.

Baseball Bills Challenge Describing
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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Actions Doomed Equivalent Failure
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A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.

Becomes Book Dead Genius
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Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

Careful Coin Determine How
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In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.

Awake Eyes Morning Open
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Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.

Colossal Language Never People
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Throughout my career, I fed off the fuel of people not being able to understand me.

Throughout My Career Fed
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Trust is hard to come by. That's why my circle is small and tight. I'm kind of funny about making new friends.

Trust Hard Come That's
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When 'Paul's Boutique' came out, I was one of the fans that didn't get it.

When Fan Paul's Boutique
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“You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can

Do Have Do Sometimes
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It'd be stupid for me to sit here and say that there aren't kids who look up to me, but my responsibility is not to them. I'm not a baby sitter.

Be Stupid For Me
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“We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.

Adjust Changing Times Hold
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You only have to have two loves in your life: for God, and for the person in front of you at any particular time

Have Two Love Life
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People think I'm more wild than I am... I like going to theme parks, play sports or just hanging out with my friends.

Am Friends Going Hanging
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Fame hit me like a ton of bricks.

Fame Hit Me Like
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I think stupid people are surprised that I'm Australian. It's a small-minded; we live in a global community, but I suppose some people still are small-minded.

Australian Community Global I Think
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There are many females in my life I couldn't function on a daily basis without who I've purposely put there that work with me.

Basis Daily Daily Basis Females
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My management team are all women. Most of the people at labels I liaise with are all women. It's pretty much all women all the time.

All Women Labels Management Management Team
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I would rather die and come to Jesus Christ than be king over the entire earth. Him I seek who died for us; Him I love who rose again because of us.

Again Because Christ Come
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May nothing entice me till I happily make my way to Jesus Christ! Fire, cross, struggles with wild beasts, wrenching of bones, mangling of limbs - let them come to me, provided only I make my way to Jesus Christ.

Beasts Bones Christ Come
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I am God's wheat, and I shall be ground by the teeth of beasts, that I may become the pure bread of Christ.

Am Beasts Become Bread
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It is outrageous to utter the name of Jesus Christ and live in Judaism.
Christ Jesus Jesus Christ Judaism
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Now I begin to be a disciple... Let fire and cross, flocks of beasts, broken bones, dismemberment... come upon me, so long as I attain to Jesus Christ.

Attain Beasts Begin Bones
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I come from Detroit where it's rough and I'm not a smooth talker.

Come From Detroit Where
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You must all follow the lead of the bishop, as Jesus Christ followed that of the Father; follow the presbytery as you would the Apostles; reverence the deacons as you would God's commandment.

Apostles Bishop Christ Commandment
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I am writing to all the churches to let it be known that I will gladly die for God if only you do not stand in my way... Let me be food for the wild beasts, for they are my way to God.

Am Beasts Churches Die
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