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A confident woman is a sexy woman, in my opinion. And I think guys find that to be the same way.

Confident Sexy Woman Guys
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I don’t have any regrets. If I could have talked to my 19- or 20-year-old self, I would have said, ‘You’re going to be fine. It ain’t that serious!’

Regret Fine Talk Serious
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I love riding, even if it’s just my Vespa. You just zip and do your thing. I find there’s a different awareness when I ride; it connects me to my senses and to God.

Ride Aware Connect Senses
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The females don’t respect themselves; they only think materialistically. They want money, but they don’t think, I’m gonna get this money on my own, they think, I’m gonna get money from this guy.

Female Respect Materialistically Guy
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I lost relatives to AIDS, a couple of my closest cousins. I lost friends to AIDS, high-school friends who never even made it to their 21st birthdays in the ’80s. When it’s that close to you, you can’t really deny it, and you can’t run from it.

Relatives Friends Birthday Deny
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I’ve loved car racing all my life. I watch NASCAR regularly, and drag racing because we have Raceway Park in New Jersey. I think I got it from my father.

Race Regularly Watch Father
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It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.

Observation People Waste Ahead
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I was born left-handed, but I was made to use my other hand. When I was writing 'Famished Road,' which was very long, I got repetitive stress syndrome. My right wrist collapsed, so I started using my left hand. The prose I wrote with my left hand came out denser, so later on I had to change it.

Born Came Change Collapsed
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I am not fighting for success, just to get more beauty out of myself and share it with more people.

Beauty Fighting More Myself
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Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action

Once Happenstance Twice Coincidence
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I'm conscious of a series of circles working its way through my life. And at this particular moment I have come round to the beginning of my writing cycle. It begins with poetry. There's hardly a day that goes past on which I don't write poetry.

Beginning Begin Circle Come
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One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity. We had a bit of a rollercoaster life with some really challenging financial periods. He was always unshaken, completely tranquil, the same ebullient, laughing, jovial man.

Adversity Always Bit Bore
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I began my writing life as a poet, so poetry has always been fundamental. I evolved from poetry to journalism to stories to novels. But poetry was always there.

Always Been Began Evolved
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When I write a poem, I go into a state of self-forgetfulness, and something higher takes over; I like to call it my best self.

Best Call Higher Like
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I just get things done instead of talking about getting them done. I don't go out and party. I don't smoke, drink or do drugs and I'm not married, that leaves a lot of time for my work.

Smoke Married Work Drink
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I don't mean to be arrogant and I really appreciate my fans but talking about what I am doing is not something I'm good at. I do what I do and that's it. I want to get back to my work and do more of it instead of talking about it.

Instead Talking Appreciate Arrogant
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I'm most in my element on tour, with a gig that day, like today. I'm on the road where I am supposed to be. I will be where I'm supposed to be at nighttime, on stage, in front of people, doing my thing.

Nighttime People Thing Supposed
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Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own.

Lonely Boring Own Crowed
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I need to do things on my own, need to be left alone.

Own Need Alone Left
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I can deal with people who watch me on stage but I am not good in communicating with people any other way than through my work.
Communicating People Through Work
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So, one way or another, I found myself in a few movies. I take it seriously when I'm on the set, but I don't take myself seriously as an actor.

Actor Movies Seriously Set
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This is my 25th year of being on stage. A lot of people who I kind of toed up to the starting line with are no longer in this position. I feel very, very lucky.

Stage Longer Position Lucky
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I'm 36 and if I met a woman of my own age and married her, I'd also be marrying her former life, her past. It might be OK for some people - I don't want to judge it or anything - but it's not for me. It would destroy my creativity.

Woman Creativity Destroy Judge
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My job is not to be easy on people. My job is to take these great people we have and to push them and make them even better.

Job Easy People Great
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So I'm more at home with my backpack, sleeping in a hotel room or on a bus or on an airplane, than I am necessarily on a bed. It's weird being here. It feels like I'm standing next to my real life.

Weird Standing Real Life
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I can only write about personal stuff, about my point of view.
Stuff About Personal Write
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Again, you can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

Connect Forward Future Trust
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I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: “If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?” And whenever the answer has been “No” for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

Mirror Morning Today Answer
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That’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

Focus Simplicity Complex Worth
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I just travel the world with my backpack and my cameras and a bunch of Clif bars.

Travel Backpack Bunch Clif
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I forged myself out of a vacuum. I crawl along the highway on hacked off stumps year after year. Some wonder how and why. I never do.

Highway Stumps Year Wonder
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And I laugh at myself when I screw things up, which happens all the time.

Laugh Happens Myself Screw
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My favorite things in life don’t cost any money. It’s really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.

Favorite Life Money Precious
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People are starting to go on about my weight but I'm not going to change my size because they don't like the way I look.
People Weight Starting But
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The focus on my appearance has really surprised me. I've always been a size 14 to 16, I don't care about clothes, I'd rather spend my money on cigarettes and booze.

Focus Appearance Surprised Me
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Maybe I'm ego-tripping, but I don't find myself a particularly horrible person, so I don't think I need to hold back anything I think or feel.

Horrible Hold Feel Maybe
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I like having my hair and face done, but I'm not going to lose weight because someone tells me to. I make music to be a musician not to be on the cover of Playboy.

Playboy Face Hair Like
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Heartbreak can definitely give you a deeper sensibility for writing songs. I drew on a lot of heartbreak when I was writing my first album, I didn't mean to but I just did.

Heartbreak Definitely Deeper Sensibility
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Now, if someone wants to spit on me, I just roll up the window of my BMW 540i.

Window Roll Spit Now
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My voice went recently, never happened before, off like a tap. I had to sit in silence for nine days, chalkboard around my neck. Like an old-school mime. Like a kid in the naughty corner. Like a Victorian mute.

Voice Happened Before Tap
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I get angry about stuff, I get very emotionally intense about stuff and that's how I get it out - with books, with the band, on my own onstage, but it's always kind of a wail.

Angry Stuff Band Wail
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You don't have to twist my arm to work.

Don't Twist Work Arm
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I've made some great mistakes in my life, but, you know, they were honest mistakes.

Great Honest Life Know
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I'd like to talk to Arnold Schwarzenegger, 'cause I live in California and I just want to see that canned, chemical filled body in my office.

California Canned Filled Office
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I take the work seriously, just not myself in it.

Work Seriously Just Myself
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Every summer, around late July and into August, I find myself in Europe, performing at any festival that will have me.

Europe Performing Have Festival
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One way to drive fear out of a relationship is to realize that your partner’s values are the same as yours, that what you care about is exactly what they care about. In my opinion, that drives fear out and makes for a great partnership, whether it’s a corporate partnership or a marriage.

Drive Relationship Vlaues Care
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To this day, my haircut is the number two clippers, which I apply to myself every month.

Every Number Clippers Apply
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The first several years of my life were used to upload incredible amounts of fear, and I just became afraid of everything. I was afraid of my parents, afraid of my classmates, afraid of the streets of Washington, D.C. I would flinch at every gesture.

Classmates Flinch Gesture Afraid
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I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator.

Accordance Almighty Believe Conduct
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