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Good manners reflect something from inside-an innate sense of consideration for others and respect for self
Manners Reflect Sense Consideration
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The most advertised commodity is not always intrinsically the best; but is sometimes merely the product of a company, with plenty of money to spend on advertising.

Money Commodity Intrinsically Best
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I used to do this big rant at the end of some gigs with Ben Folds Five. The band broke into this big heavy metal thing and I started as a joke to scream in a heavy metal falsetto. I found myself saying things like: Feel my pain, I am white, feel my pain.

Am Band Ben Big
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But I really do have a soft spot for the solo shows. Any musician who writes and sings will tell you that's the center of it, that is it. It's almost like there's something church-like about it and you gotta go back there, if you're a songwriter that sings your material.

About Almost Any Back
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The nature of honesty is that if someone has information or knows something about you that you don't want heard, then they have power over you

About Heard Honesty HonestyIs
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My idea is to play with the people who you know want to get it right. Then it's fun and easy to record, and you can get down to details, like taking out cymbals so the verse doesn't dwarf the chorus, something like that

Chorus Details Down Dwarf
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Look, sometimes, no matter how hard you try, sometimes you need a bit of luck.

Bit Hard How Look
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I think viewers quite like it when I'm suffering or eating or drinking something horrible or really up against it in some quicksand or whatever.

Against Drinking Eating Horrible
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Life's full of lots of dream-stealers always telling you you need to do something more sensible. I think it doesn't matter what your dream is, just fight the dream-stealers and hold onto it.

Always Dream Fight Full
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Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.

Sometimes The Strength Motherhood
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Every time I write a new novel about something sombre and sobering and terrible I think, 'oh Lord, they're not going to want to go here'.

Every Time Write New
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It's a funny thing: people often ask how I discipline myself to write. I can't begin to understand the question. For me, the discipline is turning off the computer and leaving my desk to do something else.

It's Funny Thing People
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For me, writing time has always been precious, something I wait for and am eager for and make the best use of. That's probably why I get up so early and have writing time in the quiet dawn hours, when no one needs me.

For Me Writing Always
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“When there’s something in the Bible that churches don’t like, they call it legalism.”

Something Bible Churches Legalism
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“If Thou canst do something with us and through us, then please, God, do something without us! Bypass us and take up a people who now know Thee not!”

God Bypass Something
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Sometimes I am two people. Johnny is the nice one. Cash causes all the trouble. They fight.

Sometimes People Two Cash
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When I was a seminarian, I was dazzled by a girl I met at an uncle's wedding. I was surprised by her beauty, her intellectual brilliance... and, well, I was bowled over for quite a while.

Beauty Brilliance Girl Her
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The quality of life is so much higher anyplace you can ski in the morning and surf in the evening - there's something to be said for that.

Evening Higher Life Morning
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I was ready to get out of the box and play something a little different than what everybody has seen.

Box Different Everybody Get
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Sometimes when you're relegated to your neighborhood, you forget that there's more important things than your neighborhood going on out in the world.

Forget Going Important Important Things
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Music is where I have the most creative freedom, but I love producing. To me, that's kind of where all the action is. You get a chance to have your hands in every aspect of a film. From picking a director, sometimes picking a writer, to the actors, the wardrobe, set design, editing, music, and marketing.

Action Actor Aspect Chance
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Sometimes people mistake the way I talk for what I am thinking.

Am I Am Mistake People
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I mean rappin' to me is easy, it's something you can do over a week.

Easy Me Mean Over
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I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.

Form Go Got Growing
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The music led to the acting. But movies aren't something you can just will yourself into. Someone has to choose you, and you have to be quite fortunate to be chosen.

Acting Choose Chosen Fortunate
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I think everybody wants to redeem themselves after they've done something that might be considered negative. I don't think anyone wants to go to the grave negative.

After Anyone Considered Done
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If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.

Baseball Cemetery Either
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The true method of knowledge is experiment.
True Method Knowledge Experiment
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Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.

Against Beauty Flux Giving
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Sometimes, help comes from the most unexpected people. Be careful with the way you treat those you feel are not on your level.

Help Be careful Treat Level
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My family called me the 'why kid' growing up. I always needed to know why something is happening, why I had to do something, why whatever.

Happening Family Kid Growing
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Every student has something to offer, and every student deserves a nurturing learning environment.
Student Offer Deserve Environment
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But these days there are a lot of younger people who would like to go into teaching but don't because the economic opportunities are sometimes elsewhere.

But These Days There
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I believe women and minorities often wait for permission to be invited to something; we need to stop doing that.

Believe Woman Minorities Permission
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Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.

Come Give Nobody Sometime
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If people want to be better writers, they can't just read the blogs! You've got to look at something that's outside this rushing world of evanescent words.

Better Blogs Read Words
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We might be celebrities and represent excellence through our art. But we are very much like you, and sometimes, our flaws are made public, just like yours. That’s when we expect you to be human too, and to give us the same forgiveness you give yourself for failing.

Flaws Art Excellence Public
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I want to go to Sierra Leone with something - whether it's some sort of contribution to healthcare, or to the entertainment industry. My cousin is a nurse; we are talking about opening a clinic.

About Clinic Contribution Cousin
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I like semi-torn-down places where I could get nestled in and get something done without anyone bothering me.

Anyone Bothering Could Done
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A lot of young musicians get the money at the wrong time. They get it for something they don't feel great about, and it'll make you feel so bad it'll destroy you and kill you.

About Bad Destroy Feel
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If you give a good performance, something that gets some feeling across to people, that's such a rare gift. It's underestimated at this point in history, when the music biz is inevitably turning into a kind of politics.

Across Feeling Gets Gift
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It's more fun to look at an old picture of me than it is to look at a new one sometimes. Although, I still wear a dress pretty well.

Although Dress Fun Look
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My real name is Amethyst. It sounds like a stage name. My mom is kind of crazy.

Crazy Kind Like Mom
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Basically, I'm a musical vocalist, but I do voiceover stuff as a sideline, like plumbing or something.

Basically Like Musical Plumbing
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I love purple because my name is Amethyst.

Because I Love Love Name
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Something I like to do a lot is just sit by water when there's a current and just stare into the water. I don't fish, I don't hunt, I don't scuba, I don't spear, don't boat, don't play basketball or football - I excel at staring into space. I'm really good at that.

Basketball Boat Current Excel
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I love musk oil. There's something about musk that makes it memorable without being overpowering.

About Being I Love Love
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As a child, I remember my dad would sometimes drive me into town with him to play pinball machines together. It's a bittersweet memory but also a favorite.

Also Bittersweet Child Dad
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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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I have never met a vampire personally, but I don't know what might happen tomorrow.

Happen Know Met Might
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