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I feel very blessed to have two wonderful, healthy children who keep me completely grounded, sane and throw up on my shoes just before I go to an awards show just so I know to keep it real.

Awards Before Blessed Children
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I love to cook comfort food. I'll make fish and vegetables or meat and vegetables and potatoes or rice. The ritual of it is fun for me, and the creativity of it.

Comfort ComfortFood Cook Creativity
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I think movies are great and I have a great time making them but they're not what keeps you warm at night, or what's ultimately the most important thing in anyone's life journey.

Anyone Great GreatTime IThink
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I think women are natural caretakers. They take care of everybody. They take care of their husbands and their kids and their dogs, and don't spend a lot of time just getting back and taking time out.

Back Care Caretakers Dogs
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If I even lose my glasses or make a mistake. I become really disappointed in myself.

Become Disappointed Even Glasses
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It really bothers me when people don't use coasters. Particularly on my table.

Bothers Me Particularly People
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It's funny that it all becomes about clothes. It's bizarre. You work your butt off and then you win an award and it's all about your dress. You can't get away from it.

About Award Away Becomes
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Maybe I'm a dreamer, but I think the ordinary guy has just as much right to say 'This is a good song' as somebody who is in the music business.

Business Dreamer Good Good Song
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You can't just walk away when somebody recognizes you. You have to take some time out and talk to them. It's not a waste of time - I just love talking to people. And I don't do this to sell records. The truth is, I do what I do because I love it.

Away Because I Love Just
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Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith.

Any Beautiful Complete Context
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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
Accept Cannot Change Courage
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I just started as a part of the public school music program. I took lessons at the school every Friday and was a part of the school band. I was just a normal kid taking instrumental lessons at school, nothing special.

Band Every Friday Instrumental
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Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope.

Achieved Doing Hope Lifetime
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That said, my kids are at home right now with my husband and I'm missing something important at my daughter's school which makes me feel sick inside. It's a lot of balance and a lot of really hard decision making.

Balance Daughter Decision Decision-Making
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I mean, what is music anyway? It's a form of communication - at least for me it is. And that's why I play the kind of music that I think - that I hope - can communicate with people.

Anyway Communicate Communication Form
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Well I had my kids so young that I kind of feel that I'm a kid too and am growing up with them. The things they're interested in tend to really influence me.

Am Feel Growing GrowingUp
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Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.
Age Another Extreme Knows
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I live my life and play my music, and I don't really seek out other people's approval or accolades or things like that. I try to do what's true to me, and how it all comes out is fine.

Accolades Approval Fine How
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It's fun to do a comedy and hook people in and then hoodwink them into watching a serious movie. I like to lead in with the comedy and then hit them over the head with a drama.

Comedy Drama Fun Head
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I played a lawyer in a movie, so, many times I think I am a lawyer. And clearly I'm not a lawyer, because I got arrested.

Am Arrested Because Clearly
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Any saxophone player will have those influences come through in their music in a very different way. I can listen to the same 10 sax players as someone else for my entire life, and we'll both play completely differently. That's the beauty of being a musician.

Any Beauty Being Both
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I was really amazed when I started hearing 'Songbird' on the radio. I couldn't believe that the record company promotion department had actually convinced radio music directors to play it -because there wasn't anything like it on the radio at the time.

Actually Amazed Anything Because
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If you go to Tiananmen Square, or go to any public area in China, you will hear my music at some point.

Any Area China Go
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Generally, I like Indian music because the melodies are usually not too complex, which is how I like music, and that's the way I write music.

Because Complex Generally How
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Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.

Armed Corrupted Destroyed Goodness
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It's fun chasing boys, especially when you're young, but I think it takes time and life experience to notice the other boys.

Boy Chasing Experience Fun
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I don't know what I would have done so many times in my life if I hadn't had my girlfriends.

Done Girlfriends Had Know
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As every parent knows, not every moment is going to be super exciting.

Every Exciting Going Knows
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My whole drive to be an actor was finding roles that I really believed represent modern women, the struggles that we deal with. Women who are strong and capable and in control of their own lives.

Actor Believed Capable Control
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The power of association cannot be overemphasized. Hangout with small-minded people and you would dream of small things, spend time with overachievers and you’d not only dream big but also achieve big things.

The power Overemphasized Hangout
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With all that’s happening in the country, let’s not forget our fundamental human rights. It is okay to voice your opinion.

Happening Country Forget Human right
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I think, like every working parent, I sometimes feel that there are not enough hours in the day. But overall, I'm very fortunate that my job has a lot of flexibility. I spend a lot of time with the kids, just around the house.

Around Day Enough Every
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Life is a mind game; you’re limited only by your thoughts.
Life Mind game Thought
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I worry about my kids growing up and how the world might hurt them. But at the same time, I absolutely do not worry about them growing up - because they have great values and a great sense of self.

About Absolutely Because Great
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Quit struggling for titles, sometimes it takes a title-less man to humble the world.

Struggling Tittles Man Humble
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I have to admit I was dismayed when I found out 'type A' refers to a category of risk for heart disease - I thought it was just a nickname my mom gave me!

Admit Category Disease Dismayed
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The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once.
Deceive Deceived Even From Time To Time
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Relevance itself is wealth, it’s a quality and a value. Time buys you relevance, time buys you greatness, time buys you money. So you must stay in the vision and with time, you would reap the benefits.

Relevance Wealth Time buys Greatness
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…You’re bound to meet a lot of stumbling blocks, and you’re bound to fail at certain things, but the number of times you fail is not the issue, it is the number of times you pick yourself up, dust yourself and continue your journey.

Meet Stumbling blocks Fail Times
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I think it's really interesting to play a woman who can articulate that she isn't ready to have a family and isn't even sure if she wants a family. I have a lot of friends like that. But obviously, that's not me.

Articulate Even Family Friends
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Until you understand that time is something you cannot cheat, you will not go very far in business

You understand Time Cheat Business
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Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.

Afterwards Became Each Other
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The resources we have as a Nation is not what is critical, what is critical is the development of the human mind. The creative mind is the most important resource tool in any nation.

Resources Nation Critical Human mind
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Do I need men? I don't think it's about needing men. It's about love.

About Love Men Need
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People responded to my work because I was doing something that hadn’t been done before.

People Work Doing Something
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Primarily, art is about humanism, fundamental human values, fundamental liberal values.

Primarily Humanism Fundamental
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I spent a lot of my 20s just trying to make other people happy, rather than trying to figure out if doing that made me happy.

Doing Figure Happy Just
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The art I do is an expression of who I am, what my history is, and the issues that bother me in terms of discrimination and racism.

Expression Issues Terms Racism
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My ex-husband is very involved in raising our beautiful children. We're very lucky because we both grew up in working families in middle America. We're on the same page that way.

America Beautiful Because Both
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Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare
Like Men Numbers Perfect
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