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A lot of my audience are in their 50s. But they want me to pretend to continue to be pretending.

Audience Continue Lot Me
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I said something really stupid once. I told a friend that my mother was so beautiful, but my dad was ugly. My dad heard it and just laughed it off, but I felt guilty. It haunted me for years. I should never have said that.

Something really Beautiful
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I like writing books. I'd rather be at home with my wife. I can write, take a break, come out, have a glass of tea, give my wife a kiss, and go back in and write some more. It's not so bad. I am really lucky.

Writing books At home Wife Glass
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I love acting, especially if it's a fantasy of some kind, where it's not just realistic, it's not naturalism.

Love acting Fantasy Kind Realistic
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I'm funny on camera sometimes. In life, once in a while. Once in a while.
Funny Camera In life
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I never thought of it as God. I didn't know what to call it. I don't believe in devils, but demons I do because everyone at one time or another has some kind of a demon, even if you call it by another name, that drives them.

Never thought God Believe Devils
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One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.

One must Judge men Opinions
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Men still have to be governed by deception.

Men Governed Deception
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We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing.
Remember Observe nature
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Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.

Prejudice Speak Mechanical instincts
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There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly.

Greater impediment Progress Sciences
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To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite.

Opposite Something Imitation
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People say I've had a difficult time in life. I think I've had an exciting time in life.

Difficult Difficult Time Exciting Exciting Time
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Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.
Virtue Premeditation Worth much
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Whether at work, at home or in public, we have been trained to believe that who we are at the core of our being is often unacceptable. As a result, we work diligently to live up to - and sometimes down to - what others have made us out to be, whether or not it is an accurate reflection of who we are.

Accurate Been Being Believe
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In order to feel loved, be respected and stay connected, we humans have a tendency to lie. We lie about who we are, what we want, what we need, what we have done or will do. Perhaps 'lie' is too strong a word. Let me say that what we do is withhold the truth.

About Connected Done Feel
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We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are.

Obliged Regard Minds Clever
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Talk about your negative experiences with the father, with your girlfriends. Not with your children. And bite your tongue when it comes to diminishing, denying, dismissing, name-calling.

About Bite Children Denying
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We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that occupies him.

Someone Occupies Official position
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At times I have long conversations with God. Sometimes I ask questions. I admit that there are also times when I let out my frustrations, fears, and anxieties in less than honorable ways. No matter what I pray about or how I pray about it, the result I always get is comfort.

About Admit Also Always
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A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.
A handful Soldiers Mouthful Arguments
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With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing.

Most people Disbelief Founded Blind belief
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I knew all of the childhood prayers I uttered on my knees at the side of my bed. Many years of Sunday-school attendance had etched certain Psalms and rote prayers into the fibers of my brain. However, somewhere deep inside of me, I had the secret belief that I did not know how to pray, and that frightened me.

Attendance Bed Belief Brain
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My father never kissed me, hugged me or told me that he loved me. As my only living parent, he became the filter through which I saw myself, the possibilities for my life, the world and all men. He was a conflicted and dark filter.

Became Dark Father Filter
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Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.
Truth Needs Garments Appeal
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For most of my life, I believed that my father had broken many of my bones. They were emotional and psychological bones; things no one could see, things that caused me to limp through life clutching for and holding on to people and situations that often rendered me immobile.

Believed Bones Broken Caused
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At birth, we are like cartilage - soft, flexible tissue. By the same natural process by which cartilage becomes hard bone, the soft, tender heart of an innocent child can become hardened by the circumstances into which she is born.

Become Becomes Birth Bone
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Why can't women get along? Because we're afraid. We're afraid to be vulnerable. We're afraid to be soft. We're afraid to be hurt. But most of all, we're afraid of our power. So we become controlling and aggressive and vicious.

Afraid Aggressive Along Because
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To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still.

Receive applause Works Demand Power
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One of the ways that people avoid taking responsibility for their role in their own pain is what I call the BPs - blame and projection.

Avoid Blame Call Own
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One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.

Habit Friction Mind Gliding over
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There is a lot of healing going on. Really! More people are vegetarians, more are in the green movement, more of us are tearing down the old paradigms and embracing same-sex marriage, single motherhood, men raising babies.

Babies Down Embracing Going
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'Game of Thrones' is an amazing show, and I have no problem speaking of the virtues of HBO.

Amazing Game GameOfThrones HBO
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Everyone has something that blocks us from the full experience and expression of our nobility.
Blocks Everyone Experience Expression
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I think most people think that a spiritual path or growing spiritually means that all of a sudden you'll be able to forecast the six lotto numbers and all your bills will be paid.

Able Bills Forecast Growing
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To be content with life or to live merrily, rather all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial glance; the more thoughtful we become the more earnest we grow.

Life Required Bestow Superficial glance
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To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.

Grow wiser Learn Fault Instrument
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I think if actors are successful at one thing, they paint themselves into a corner sometimes, and what's the fun in that?

Actor Corner Fun IThink
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Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me me.

Take back stuff Bush Cloud
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I mean, there are some amazing storytelling being done on the small screen right now. That's what so cool about being in television right now. Studios, networks are starting to throw more resources, better writers, more production values... and to be part of that is awesome.

About Amazing Awesome Being
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I never feel with the fashion stuff that it's too fake. If I was a model and had a working part in Fashion Week, then I might feel like that, but I'm just a visitor. I really only walk in and watch the shows and think, 'Maybe I could wear that in a video.' I meet the designer, say hello, and then I go.

Could Designer Fake Fashion
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Don't always blindly follow guidance and step-by-step instructions; you might run into something interesting.

Blindly follow Guidance Instructions
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I didn't have cable television growing up; there were only six channels you could watch then. The only really good channel was channel 10, and they would play 'The Nanny Called Fran' every night for years. I've seen every episode 100 times. I would get my Grandma to make me leopard skin dresses on her sewing machine.

Cable Channel Channels Could
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I do absolutely nothing, actually, believe it or not. People will probably hate me for saying that, but I guess I'm one of those lucky horrible people who, no matter what I eat, I don't gain a pound. My whole family is just like that. They're all skinny and tall, and I guess, so am I.

Absolutely Absolutely Nothing Actually Am
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They say I'm insane because I need to have so much creative control. They say I'm unmanageable, but I'm not. I just know what I like. I'm obsessed with it. If you can't control it, that's like having somebody else paint your pictures. How could you do that? I never could.

Because Control Could Creative
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Being on television, playing the same character for many years, for me, I think that would get a little tedious.

Being Character Get IThink
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Everything that I had done creatively related to two or three incidents that happened to me when I was a child that I'd forgotten. Everything, absolutely everything.

Absolutely Child Creatively Done
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What I'm trying to do is find either existing properties or come up with properties or angles or stories which will create music drama. It's my obsession and most of all I would like to remain working in theatre. I think it's very much alive.

Alive Angles Come Create
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I think a lot of great male comic actors are introspective, quiet personalities, which I really admire. But they are really able to turn it up when the camera's on.

Able Actor Admire Camera
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I have to say that anger is the blanket that comes around me, and that blunts and blurs my sense of proportion.
Anger Around Blanket Me
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