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The songwriting did come naturally; it really did. Like Joe said, the first song we ever wrote together was the song that got us signed, you know, so it was either luck, fate, or something in between.

Between Come Did Either
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Moms are sometimes the craziest because they know they want to get their daughters to be seen by us or get an autograph.

Autograph Because Craziest Daughters
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Music's been around a long time, and there's going to be music long after Ray Charles is dead. I just want to make my mark, leave something musically good behind. If it's a big record, that's the frosting on the cake, but music's the main meal.

After Around Been Behind
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Love is the emotion that a woman feels always for a poodle dog and sometimes for a man.
Love Emotion Feels Man
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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 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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If you can't get out of something, get into it.

Get Out Something You
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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'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 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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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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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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Broadway is such a diverse community. Everybody knows how I believe, and everyone believes, and it's not a big deal. But in Hollywood, if you talk about politics - especially if you're a Republican - or spirituality, it's just not something people want to hear about.

About Believe Believes Big
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I've never turned into a bee - I've never been chased by a mummy or met a ghost. But many of the ideas in my books are suggested by real life.

Bee Been Books Chased
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There's a difference between making fun of something and having fun with something.
Between Difference Fun Having
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So many people in their 20s and 30s, on Twitter, say 'Please write something for us,' so I have to listen to them, they're my audience.

Audience Listen Many People
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Women, as they grow older, rely more and more on cosmetics. Men, as they grow older, rely more and more on a sense of humor.

Women Grow older Cosmetics Men
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There is something distinguished about even his failures; they sink not trivially, but with a certain air of majesty, like a great ship, its flags flying, full of holes.

Distinguished Failure Trivially Flag
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The sweetest memory is that which involves something which one should not have done; the bitterest, that which involves something which one should not have done, and which one did not do.

Sweetest memory Have done Bitterest
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I was going to have cosmetic surgery until I noticed that the doctor's office was full of portraits by Picasso.

Cosmetic Doctor Full Going
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Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times.

Before Fallen Few Husband
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There's something about taking a plow and breaking new ground. It gives you energy.

About Breaking Energy Gives
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When we first broke into that forbidden box in the other dimension, we knew we had discovered something as surprising and powerful as the New World when Columbus came stumbling onto it.

Box Broke Came Columbus
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If you don't like my book, write your own. If you don't think you can write a novel, that ought to tell you something. If you think you can, do. No excuses. If you still don't like my novels, find a book you do like.

Book Excuses Find Like
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I've met many irresponsible people in my life but never an irresponsible cat.

Cat Irresponsible Life Many
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We are often unable to tell people what they need to know, because they want to know something else, and would therefore only misunderstand what we said.

Unable Tell people Need Something else
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I no longer look at my life and times in the motion picture industry as my career. I just look at it now as something I like and want to do.

Career Industry Just Life
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Society questions the police and their methods, and the police say, Do you want the criminals off the street or not?

Criminals Methods Off Police
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Acting was something that just came along. But I made good money, so it wasn't something I was just going to put aside and pretend it didn't exist.

Acting Along Aside Came
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For guys playing sports at a high level, for money, I can't put my finger on it, but in a man's world of sport, there is something visceral to beating another man.

Another Another Man Beating Finger
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I don't want to tell President Obama how to make a speech. He's a much better speech maker than I am. But I think always to tell the truth in a sometimes blatant way, even though it might be temporarily unpopular, is the best approach.

Always Am Approach Best
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Sometimes the motivator needs motivation. Sometimes the encourager needs encouragement. Sometimes the inspirer needs inspiration.

Motivator Motivation Encouragement Inspiration
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My husband gave me a necklace. It's fake. I requested fake. Maybe I'm paranoid, but in this day and age, I don't want something around my neck that's worth more than my head.

Age Around Day DayAndAge
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Cats and dogs believe politicians are like cemetery caregivers; they are on top of everyone, but nobody listens.

Believe Cats Cemetery Dogs
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I loved to write when I was a child. I wrote, but I always thought it was something that you did as a child, then you put away childish things.

Always Away Child Childish
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It's unfortunate that sometimes in schools, there's this need to have things quantified and graded.

Need Schools Sometimes Things
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I was appointed Poet Laureate. It came totally out of the blue because most Poet Laureates had been considerably older than I. It was not something that I even had begun to dream about!

About Appointed Because Been
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People write me from all over the country, asking me, and sometimes even telling me, what they think a poet laureate should do. I found that immensely valuable.

Asking Country Even Found
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A lot of people like to do certain things, but they're not that good at it. Keep going through the things that you like to do, until you find something that you actually seem to be extremely good at. It can be anything.

People Certain things Keep going Good
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Without imagination we can go nowhere. And imagination is not restricted to the arts. Every scientist I have met who has been a success has had to imagine.

Arts Been Every Go
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You have to imagine it possible before you can see something. You can have the evidence right in front of you, but if you can't imagine something that has never existed before, it's impossible.

Before Evidence Existed Front
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The secret is not to give up hope. It's very hard not to because if you're really doing something worthwhile I think you will be pushed to the brink of hopelessness before you come through the other side.

Secret Give up Something worthwhile
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Whenever you do something, people try to re-do it and do a better version, especially if they're in another country.

Whenever You do Something People
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Taking something from one man and making it worse is plagiarism.

Taking something Man Worse Plagiarism
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Everybody sets out to do something, and everybody does something, but no one does what he sets out to do.

Everybody Sets out Do something Does
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Trials, obstacles, difficulties and sometimes defeats, are the very food of faith.

Trials Obstacles Difficulties Food
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Be assured that Christianity is something more than forms and creeds and ceremonies: there is life, and power, and reality, in our holy faith.

Assured Christianity More than Creeds
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Our heavenly Father never takes anything from his children unless he means to give them something better.

Heavenly father Takes Children Means
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I love to shop after a bad relationship. I don't know. I buy a new outfit and it makes me feel better. It just does. Sometimes I see a really great outfit, I'll break up with someone on purpose.

After Bad Better Break
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