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My intent is never to leave Latin music. I definitely still want to release bachata albums.

Albums Definitely Intent Latin
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As a Latin musician, I understand that there are so many places where people don't know who I am. My albums never came out in Australia or Japan.

Albums Am Australia Came
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At 17, I was working at Sprint in the Bronx so I could make money to fund my own music.

Bronx Could Fund Make
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I'm excited to be launching D'Leon Records to support other young talent in their development. I have been very fortunate to have been able to break through and succeed in this tough industry, and this is one of my ways of giving back.

Able Back Been Break
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Happy is he who is aware of the mysteries of his Lord.

Happy Lord Aware Mysteries
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My whole life, I grew up with this double vision, this vision of America but also Latin community.

Also America Community Double
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The mass, whether it be a crowd or an army, is vile.
Army Crowd Mass Vile
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When I hear the songs 'Dangerous' or 'End of My World', I go, 'Wow, I didn't even know I could go that low!' And when I played them for my family, they said, 'That doesn't even sound like you.'

Could Dangerous End Even
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I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches his belly.

Belly Hair His I Love
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In this outward and physical ceremony we attest once again to the inner and spiritual strength of our Nation. As my high school teacher, Miss Julia Coleman, used to say: 'We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.

Outward Physical Ceremony Spiritual
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All my possessions for a moment of time.

Possessions Moment Time
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There is nothing about which I am more anxious than my country, and for its sake I am willing to die ten deaths, if that be possible.
Country Anxious Willing Die
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I do not choose that my grave should be dug while I am still alive.

Choose Grave Dug Alive
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When NEPA strike, you be my light oh. When I dey cry, you be my smile oh

Strike Light Cry Smile
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I'm older than I was, and I'm still washed-up, and I haven't changed my music one iota. It's just much easier to do this when people are being nice to you.

Being BeingNice Changed Easier
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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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Maybe this is wrong, but I feel like I craft my songs carefully enough that I still find that fifteen years after having written one, it still works for me - I'm not cringing.

After Carefully Craft Enough
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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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My job is to be some sort of music/lyric psychic, to figure out that that's the right song to not fight the lyric.

Fight Figure Job Lyric
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I make money, my wife spends it.

Money Wife Spends Make money
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Survival is not about being fearless. It's about making a decision, getting on and doing it, because I want to see my kids again, or whatever the reason might be.

About Again Because Being
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I've had so many injuries in my life that it's ridiculous.

Had Injuries Life Many
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My favorite moments? Where it's all going swimmingly, the sun's out and I've got a fire going and a nice snake on the barbecue.

Barbecue Favorite Fire Going
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My faith is an important part of my life and over the years I've learnt that it takes a proud man to say he doesn't need anything. It has been a quiet strength and a backbone through a lot of difficult times.

Anything Backbone Been Difficult
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Dancing inspires my music. Having your girlfriends all together and just being free and happy.

Being Dancing Free Girlfriends
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I never saw myself as a singer; I never really thought I had the voice for it.

Had Myself Never Really
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I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved.

Fearsome Mind Throw My
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Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life.

Small Change Wonders These
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I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.

Best Work Do My
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My father is Cuban. Spanish was my first language, but I don't speak it that much anymore because I had dyslexia, and in school they work with you only in English. But I'm proud to be Latina, and most people don't know I am.

Am Anymore Because Cuban
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My one aim and concentrated purpose shall be and is to show that women can learn, can reason, can compete with men in the grand fields of literature and science . . .

Aim Concentrated Women Learn
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I can count all the ways in which being a mother has enriched my understanding of the world, of character, my sense of the future and my attachment to it.

Count All The Way
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I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.

Suppose That My Central
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I have suffered from bullying in many ways, from bullying in school due to my disability in reading, to digital abuse that I deal with on a daily basis. I'd like to tell the kids that are being bullied that no one should have to deal with the abuse, ever!

Abuse Basis Being Bullied
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Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave. I never get over being thankful for that - for the courage of my readers.

Readers Fiction Read Think
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My morning begins with trying not to get up before the sun rises. But when I do, it's because my head is too full of words, and I just need to get to my desk and start dumping them into a file.

Morning Begins With Trying
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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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After 'The Poisonwood Bible' was published, several people believed that my parents were missionaries, which could not be further from the truth.

After Poisonous Bible Was
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I don't have to try to be perfect because I know that my fans like me for who I am. They like me because I am weird and kind of funky, but still really calm.

Am Because Calm Fans
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My dad would call me his Cuban princess because I had really dark olive skin because I was always in the sun; but I don't really go in the sun anymore, so that is why I am so white.

Always Am Anymore Because
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“My goal is GOD HIMSELF. Not joy, not peace, not even blessing but HIMSELF...my GOD.”
Goal Joy Peace Blessing
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My big break was becoming the spokesperson for Texas Instruments. Casting directors really started giving me a chance to read for projects.

Becoming Big BigBreak Break
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“I am no Patriot for I try to breathe in with the steadfast belief that my country is the Earth and my religion is Humanism.”

Patriot Breathe Steadfast Belief
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My family was absolutely supportive. I did have a fear of cold reads because of my dyslexia, but my family's support and reading classes really helped me overcome my fear!

Absolutely Because Classes Cold
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I want people to look at my films and say 'Wow, she's a good actress', and I know I'll have to work hard for that.

Actress Films Good Hard
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My father was a man of love. He always loved me to death. He worked hard in the fields, but my father never hit me. Never. I don't ever remember a really cross, unkind word from my father.

Father Love Death Field
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You've got to know your limitations. I don't know what your limitations are. I found out what mine were when I was twelve. I found out that there weren't too many limitations, if I did it my way.

Limitations Mine Know Way
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When I record somebody else's song, I have to make it my own or it doesn't feel right. I'll say to myself, I wrote this and he doesn't know it!

Record Song Feel Somebody
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My secret is one the world needs to know - nearly a billion people a year die from unsafe drinking water.

Billion Die Drinking DrinkingWater
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When my wife died, I booked myself into the studio just to work, to occupy myself.
Died Booked Studio Work
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