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When I grew up, what was interesting for me was that music was color and life was gray. So music for me has always been more than entertainment.

Always Been Color Entertainment
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I was opposed to doing TV for a long time because I thought the quality of writing wasn't very strong, as opposed to film, but there's been a shift in term of the quality of scripts. HBO has attracted a tremendous amount of great writing talent.

Amount Attracted Because Been
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Entertainment came out of this thing called a television, and it was gray. Most of the films that we saw at the cinema were black and white. It was a gray world. And music somehow was in color.

Black Came Cinema Color
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I don't really know any other musicians like me. I grew up backstage with my dad who played in a post-war dance band, so I always feel at home at a venue.

Always Any Backstage Band
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I should call people back more readily. I'm not the best friend sometimes in terms of that. I do follow that white balloon and get distracted a lot.

Back Balloon Best BestFriend
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Backstage, I get sleepy, and want to curl up and snooze. I never get nervous, whatever the event. I feel quite detached until I walk on stage, and then some gear inside me clicks and off I go like a wind up doll.

Backstage Clicks Curl Detached
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I want to age with some dignity.
Age Dignity Some Want
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Keith Moon is not interested in jazz and won't ever be a jazz drummer because he's more interested in looking good and being screamed at.

Because Being Drummer Ever
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My father had played the guitar when he was young, and my uncle Jack had worked for Kalamazoo, before the war, developing guitar pickups. So there was a kind of family thing about the guitar, although it was considered something of an anomaly then.

About Although Anomaly Before
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I didn't start to collect records and listen to guitar players properly until I went to art school, when I'd already been playing for five years. So my style was already formed, and that's why I think it's so unique.

Art Been Collect Five
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I don't view the fans in the way that most performers do. As a mass of people who have paid money, I know what they want. It's a very, very, very, very, very low common denominator.

Common Denominator Fans Know
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I think Twitter is best when it sparks conversations elsewhere. To use YouTube and Facebook and all the tools we have available to us today to respond and also promote and answer and engage is awesome.

Also Answer Available Awesome
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If you go to Minnesota in January, you should know that it's gonna be cold. You don't panic when the thermometer falls below zero.

Below Cold Falls Go
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I had just as much support from Republicans as I did Democrats when I ran for president. But I should have organized the Democratic Party to get me re-elected.

Democratic Democratic Party Democrats Did
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My brother, who's a violinist now, was the real ham, the real performer of the family. His passion for the violin is the only thing that kept him from being an actor.

Actor Being Brother Family
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I'm on 'Game Of Thrones,' and every time we have someone new coming on our show, we welcome them with open arms and get revitalised by this new presence. Then we kill them off very quickly.

Arms Coming Every EveryTime
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A lot of parts written for people of my size, dwarfs, are either foolish idiots or, like, these sages that are all-knowing, and they're very, sort of, come-to-them-for-answers.

Dwarf Either Foolish Idiots
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I have a big cynical side to me.

Big Cynical Me Side
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I don't like people being cautious and tentative and choosing their words carefully around me because I'm a dwarf.

Around Because Being Carefully
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I guess the word to call me is my name, Pete.
Call Guess Me Name
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Jen Lawrence is quite a fan of 'Game of Thrones.'

Fan Game GameOfThrones Lawrence
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I feel like life is much greater than a hero or a villain: there's good people that sometimes make mistakes.

Feel Good GoodPeople Greater
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We're not environmentally doing very good things to this planet, and we might not be around too long.

Around Doing Environmentally Good
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Never try to win over those who dislike you for your convictions and beliefs. They’re not the barometer of life. The best way to treat them is to ignore them whilst firmly defending those beliefs until their anger turns to solemn resignation and their hatred turns to quiet admiration

Never try Win Dislike Conviction
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It is quite sad that we have pushed ourselves to the point in this country that when any public appointment is announced, most Nigerians would first research the tribe of the appointee before they research his academic qualifications and competence for the job!

Sad Pushed Country Public appointment
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I just finished participating in a virtual meeting of the Federal Executive Council, the first ever after the last one held on March 18th, 2020. Subsequent meetings were suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Finished Virtual meeting Suspended Pandemic
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The panic and paranoia over the virus have become more deadly and infectious than the virus itself! What we need is deliberate calmness and extreme caution as we meticulously follow all the guidelines of WHO and NCDC daily. Panic always compounds every emergency situation.

Panic Paranoia Virus Deadly
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Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

Fall Get Key Live
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We are anthill men upon an anthill world.

Men World
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Even as a private lawyer, I had enough layers in my skin to take everything anyone threw at me without responding, even including insults, except when an allegation of a SPECIFIC nature with PROOF is made. As a public officer, I have even fortified that disposition the more

Private lawyer Layers Skin Allegation
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I wonder how we came to a point where our affection towards fellow humans is dictated only by political, tribal and religious sentiments.

Wonder Point Affection Human
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Whilst it is perfectly in order to constructively criticize public officers’ official actions and policies, it is absolutely wrong to make judgments about people’s characters to the extent of using foul language to describe them without having personal interactions with them.

Perfectly Constructively criticize Public officers
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So if you make the dislike or perception of people the barometer by which you adjust your life-pattern, then you have completely missed it. Live your life according to the dictates of your conscience and your natural inclinations, so long as they’re within the bounds of legality

Perception People Barometer Life
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Public officers must always bear in mind the cliche that power is transient. They have limited time to make their modest contributions and bow out for others to continue. No one can annex public office as a personal chattel. That’s why I recoil from the razzmatazz of public office.

Public officers Mind Power Limited time
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It is very intriguing that it is the same set of people, including some members of the public, who always seek to hold public officers accountable (and who are always quick to cry ‘crucify him’) that also put them under pressure to contribute financially to everything they do.

Intriguing People Members Public
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It would appear that majority of those who demand accountability from public officers do so for selfish reasons as they really would not mind if they benefit from some unethical behavior of the public officers; their watchdog role is just to ensure that they are not ‘left out’

Majority Demand Accountability Selfish
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The preponderance of opinions in countries around the world is that majority of citizens are blaming their govts for not doing enough to curb COVID-19. We must be tolerant & allow people vent their opinions. It’s a sign of the times. The grass is always greener on the other side

Preponderance Opinions World Citizens
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The challenge that’ll soon face government around the world is how to keep their citizens safe from COVID-19 by imposing inactivity & at the same time how to keep them safe from poverty, hunger and depression as a result of the inactivity. It’s a decision between the rock and a hard place

Challenge Face Government World
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The anxiety of some members of the public at this time is understandable and so are their criticisms. Matters of life/health should top the agenda of government. Therefore the criticisms must be taken in good faith and government will continue to weigh all of them to respond appropriately.

Anxiety Understandable Criticism Life
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Let’s use this period of partial lockdown to reignite old friendships and our common humanity. It’s not a period of gloom, but precaution. Call up old friends; search for your childhood playmates on social media and chat them up. Soon, we shall return to our crazy daily schedules

Partial lockdown Reignite Old friendship
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This is how every African should think for Africa to grow. Stop feeling inferior to Oyibo people. Na the same God create us. We have what they do not have while they have what we do not have. Love our own, appreciate…

Think Grow Stop feeling inferior
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Prayer is my propeller. It helps me hold it all together, and the distance I have covered is only because I draw strength from God’s presence.

Prayer My propeller Help
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Work hard at what you want, because it may not come to you without some determination and persistence.
Work hard Determination Persistence
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You can’t fix yourself by breaking someone else. Instead of putting anyone down, inspire them, change their life for the better, make them happy, make them smile, lift their spirit, and see what blessings will come your way.

Fix yourself Breaking someone Inspire them
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Don’t be deceived by what happens on social media. Obviously, there is something else actors are doing, perhaps other businesses to shore up their income.

Deceived Happens Social media
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I found this so hilarious but I thought - We fear the unknown no matter how helpful it is meant to be .. this is why combating a pandemic without public trust in government and health care delivery and without true community buy in will prove ineffective

Found Hilarious Fear Helpful
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So honoured to be on Forbes Woman Africa’s Power List of Africa’s Most Powerful 50 Women . Power is Influence , if anyone says they are leading and no one is following they are just taking a walk ! So grateful to God for the circle of influence He has blessed me with .

So honored Power Women
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The sure path to frustration is to try and control what is outside your circle of influence. Not everything that CONCERNS us is within our control . PEACE comes from knowing what lies beyond our control .

Sure path Frustration Control Influence
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Even on the same WiFi , everyone’s file size is different. Don’t despair. The wait seems long because the file is large! You will rejoice!

Size Different Don't despair Wait
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Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together.

After Bed Day Every
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