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The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.

Test Comedian Laugh Opens
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A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward

Life Spent Labor Wasted
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Being a strong woman is very important to me. But doing it all on my own is not.

Being Doing Important Me
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Easter is very important to me, it's a second chance.

Chance Easter Important Me
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I use all my skills that I can muster up, but the fun thing is that I find some untapped skills every once in a while. I get that from my daddy.

Daddy Every Find Fun
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Waiting makes me restless. When I'm ready, I'm ready.

Makes Me Ready Restless
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The biggest challenge in my life is getting all these kids raised. I've helped with nieces, stepchildren and my own son, so the biggest challenge is making sure the kids are raised and finding enough quality time with them.

Biggest BiggestChallenge Challenge Enough
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I don't think quantity time is as special as quality time with your family.

Family Quality QualityTime Quantity
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Fame is a mind - a way of thinking about things. It's all in your mind.

About Fame Mind Things
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It's funny how many people will come to Vegas to see your show where they might not come out to see you unless you come to their hometown.

Come Funny Hometown How
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And I was mischievous. I was always into something. So when I got good attention from the singing, I knew that was probably where I needed to land.

Always Attention Good Got
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I totally love to act. I don't care if it's a musical, a comedy. I just like to work and interact with other people.
Act Care Comedy Don'tCare
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A good song has to have a great melody, and the lyrics have to touch my heart. Now, if it's just a little toe-tapper, got to make me feel good somehow or another, or when I sing it I can't make you feel good.

Another Feel FeelGood Good
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Being sexy is kind of funny to me. You know, I can get kind of spunky or I can get tough, you know, that kind of tough, sexy look. But sexy? No, I don't think so.

Being Funny Get ICan
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When I got into the music business in 1976, there weren't many women on the roster. As a woman, you don't complain; you work twice as hard, and you do your job.

Business Complain Got Hard
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I just try not to judge. Don't judge me, and I won't judge you.
Judge JudgeMe Just Me
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I exercise at least five times a week with stretching, Pilates, push-ups, planks, sit- ups, squats and light weights.

Exercise Five Least Light
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I treat myself pretty good. I take lots of vacations, I eat well, I take supplements, I do mercury detox, I get plenty of sleep, I drink plenty of water and I stay away from drama and stress.

Away Detox Drama Drink
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I came to realize I did believe in God. I couldn't conceive of a universe without someone overseeing it in a compassionate way.

Believe Came Compassionate Conceive
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I am very into lyrics. I start with what the words are saying, what the storyline is saying, like a good script. It should really capture me, do something for me. If I don't get it, it's not going to move people, and if it's not going to move people, it's not going to happen.
Am Capture Get Going
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Some of the most morally conscious, kindest, most compassionate people are in the entertainment industry, people who want to affect the world and make it a better place through telling human, heartfelt stories.

Affect Better Compassionate Conscious
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If you can't get out of something, get into it.

Get Out Something You
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If God made anything better than women, I think he kept it for himself.

Anything Better God He
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I grew up in a time when people believed in duty, honor and country. My grandfathers were both officers. My father was a General in the Air Force. My brother and I were both in the Army. I've always felt a kinship with soldiers; I think it's possible to support the warrior and be against the war.

Against Air Air Force Always
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It's hard for children's authors to be accepted when they try to write adult books. J.K. Rowling is the exception because people are so eager to read anything by her, but it took Judy Blume three or four tries before she had a success.

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I'm a firm believer in God himself, but that's as far as I can go. I'm not any denomination. I'm not Catholic or Presbyterian or Baptist or Methodist or Jewish or Muslim. I'm none of those things. And I'm sure that's just fine with God.

Any As Far As Baptist Believer
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I think I'm a much better father as an older man than I was with my first kids. Occasionally, I have to yell at the little guys, but they don't take me seriously. 'Listen to the old guy,' they say. 'Isn't he great? He's mad.'

Better Father First Great
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I have no regrets. I feel very grateful for the life that I had - you know, family I live with; and I've been doing work that I love, ever since I came to Nashville.

Been Came Doing Ever
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I've had a life of all kinds of experiences - most of them good. And I've got eight kids and a wife that puts up with everything I do and keeps me out of trouble.

Eight Everything Experiences Good
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I've always been the kind of person who, if there's anything that can kill me, I want to know something about it.

About Always Anything Been
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I had a list of rules I made up one time. It says: Tell the truth, sing with passion, work with laughter, and love with heart. Those are good to start with, anyway.

Anyway Good Had Heart
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I met Quincy Jones in Seattle. We were kids together... liked each other when we met and have been close ever since. He wasn't writing when we met - in fact, I more or less started him off to write; voicing, harmony, and stuff like that.

Been Close Each Ever
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To me, music is entertainment - what else can it be? In fact, it's the only language I know of that's universal.
Else Entertainment Fact In Fact
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The closest I've come to knowing myself is in losing myself. That's why I loved football before I loved music. I could lose myself in it.

Before Closest Come Could
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The one thing I regret is missing the time with my older children when they were young.

Children Missing Older One Thing
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When I was thirty, and a long time after that, I felt like I had to leave home to do what I had to do. Now, it's just the opposite.

After Felt Had Home
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I always had to wait until something hit me, and I could write it. But when I would cut an album, to me it represented the time that I spent since the last one. Just the way I was looking at the world.

Album Always Could Cut
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I wish my memory weren't so bad. They tell me it's from all the football and boxing and the concussions that I got.

Bad Boxing Football Got
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Those 'Idol' shows are kind of scary to me. They wanted me to be on one of those panels one time, and I said it's the last thing in the world I'd ever want to do. I would hate to have to discourage somebody.

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To me, if you love it enough to devote your life to it, then you're doing the right thing.
Devote Doing Doing The Right Thing Enough
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I hope that I'll keep being creative until they throw dirt on me.

Being Creative Dirt Hope
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I am grateful every morning I wake up. I've a big family full of kids, who laugh all the time and love each other.

Am Big Big Family Each
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Everything that I write is sort of autobiographical, and I don't know that I'm getting better, but I'm certainly running out of time.

Autobiographical Better Certainly Everything
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To me, the best love songs work on two - maybe three - different levels, where you're talking about the person who you're right opposite, and all the people like that.

About Best Different Different Levels
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When I wrote 'Help Me Make It Through the Night,' I was on an oil platform out in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico and was just thinking of myself.

Gulf Help Just Make
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By not having to live up to people's expectations, I was somehow free.
Expectations Free Having Live
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Just the words and melody - that's what moves your emotions.

Emotions Just Melody Moves
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I don't think I'm that good a singer. I can't think of a song that I've written that I don't like the way somebody else sings it better.

Better Else Good Like
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Human rights is something that wasn't hard to be inspired to write about because there have been so many violations of those rights.

About Because Been Hard
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What really makes me happy now is my home. I know that I have that to lose. But I don't see losing it. And I don't care if I never do another movie. And I don't care if I never get back on the road. I like to think that I'm gonna do that. But if I don't, I can live with that.

Another Back Care Don't Care
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