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I can be a closed book sometimes, but know this – you have my heart.
Closed book Have Heart
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For now, I’ll continue to keep my hedges high, paste on my smile and take my zen and joy wherever I find it.

Keep Hedge Smile Zen
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I never thought of losing, but now that it' s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That's my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.

Believe Defeats Happened Life
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I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I'm in a world of my own.

Am Astronaut Boxing IAm
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My toughest fight was with my first wife.

Fight First Toughest Wife
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I figure I'll be champ for about ten years and then I'll let my brother take over - like the Kennedys down in Washington.

About Brother Champ Down
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My way of joking is to tell the truth. That's the funniest joke in the world.

Funniest Joke Joking Tell
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I'm so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark.

Bed Before Dark Fast
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Joy is a mystery weapon. When you lay hold on it, life is made cheap for you.

Joy Weapon Mystery Life
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I'm very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It's the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. Art should always be an exchange.

Always Art Beautiful Compliment
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I've spent my life butting my head against other people's lack of imagination.

Against Head Imagination Lack
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To my undying shame, I do read reviews. I don't read them all, but I like to get some kind of idea how things are going.
Get Going How Idea
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Writing screenplays makes me a better musician because it clears my head. After writing a movie, I go running back to music as fast as I can.

After Back Because Better
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One of my big fears is drying up, and the more I create, the more I feel myself shrinking beneath the backlog of work I've done.

Beneath Big Create Done
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I always thought my records were number one; it's just the charts didn't think so.

Always Charts Just Number
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My father was a teacher and my mother also worked in the school, so the family has a background in education.

Also Background Education Family
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Writing is a necessary thing for me, just to keep myself level. It has beneficial effects on my life.

Beneficial Effects Just Keep
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Songwriting, I have to take myself away from everybody to do. It's an unsightly act.
Act Away Everybody Myself
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I won't go into the details, but I ready myself for the day. I am a high-maintenance type of guy.

Am Day Details ForTheDay
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If I'm hanging around too much, my wife and kids say, 'Hey, why don't you go downstairs and start a new novel?'

Around Downstairs Go Hanging
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People are always surprised to see clues to my being a normal kind of guy. As if I'm somehow letting the team down.

Always Being Clues Down
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I consider myself to be first and foremost a comic writer. The way I entertain myself - especially in those long and grim hours in the office - is to write stuff I find funny.

Comic Consider Entertain Find
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My music has to do with beauty, and it's intended to, if not lift the spirits, then be a kind of a balm to the spirits.

Balm Beauty Intended Kind
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For I am not so enamoured of my own opinions that I disregard what others may think of them.

Am Disregard I Am May
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God’s plan for you is good, but the plan of the enemy is evil. Without faith, life is full of defeats and with faith, victory is assured.

God’s plan Enemy Evil Defeats
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Faith is not just a theory, it is a mystery that demands your absolute trust in god which you have to consciously build because faith does not just happen. Faith comes by hearing!

Faith Mystery Demands Trust
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One of my great laments is that education today seems to have... be less about passion and more about process, more about tactic or technique.

About Education Great Less
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So far as hypotheses are concerned, let no one expect anything certain from astronomy, which cannot furnish it, lest he accept as the truth ideas conceived for another purpose, and depart from this study a greater fool than when he entered it.

Accept Another Anything Astronomy
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Just think for how long humanity was controlled by mystical, magical thinking - the diseases and suffering that led to. We managed to survive, but just barely. It wasn't pretty.

Barely Controlled Diseases How
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I've been a minimalist my whole life, even if you wouldn't know it from my office.
Been Even Know Life
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Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my view, nearly induced me to abandon utterly the work I had begun.

Abandon Absurdity Apparent Because
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So, influenced by these advisors and this hope, I have at length allowed my friends to publish the work, as they had long besought me to do.

Advisor Allowed Friends Had
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Sequels are very rarely a good idea, and in any case, the success of the book changed my relationship with the club in some ways.

Any Book Case Changed
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I don't want my books to exclude anyone, but if they have to, then I would rather they excluded the people who feel they are too smart for them!

Anyone Books Exclude Excluded
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I'm quite gloomy. I just am one of those people, vaguely lugubrious.

Am Gloomy Just People
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Jeremy Corbyn has proved popular with young voters in part because he has promised an end to austerity.

Austerity Because End He
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Creative thinking - in terms of idea creativity - is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can be practiced and nurtured.

Creative thinking Mystical Skill
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So I've done my fair share of theater. I have also been very fortunate in that I've been able to come to New York two or three times a year just to see as many shows as possible. I think the live theater culture here is incredible.

Able Also Been Come
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I'm a very lucky man in this chapter of my professional life, 'cause I get to do jobs with wildly different skill sets.

Cause Chapter Different Get
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My parents own a restaurant in Albuquerque.

Own Parents Restaurant
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I'm probably my biggest critic. I worry that if you spend any quality time reveling in good things then karma will slap you upside the head, so I try to stay as even keel as I'm able.

Able Any Biggest Critic
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I have an unbelievable assistant who handles all of my scheduling! It's like a Tetris game.

Assistant Game Like Scheduling
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I collect puppet stuff. I have a puppet workshop in my garage. I was looking for any opportunity to be able to get very creatively involved in that world.

Able Any Collect Creatively
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In my 20s, I mostly ate burritos and nachos, with the occasional burger. Neil Patrick Harris

Ate Burger Mostly Occasional
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I enjoy darker sardonic wit more than knock-knock jokes. I spent the first healthy chunk of my career playing all-American, pleasant, average, nice people, so it's fun to have some complications there.

All-American Average Career Chunk
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I remember thinking that the rest of my life would be solo. I wasn't weepy when I thought that - it was just a realization that I had gone this long being self-sufficient.

Being Gone Had IRemember
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I enjoy being a hyphenate. I've always thought of my career as a plate spinner in the circus.

Always Being Career Circus
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I've done plenty of daredeviling - from white-water rafting to bungee jumping. But I think the most fearless was hosting the Emmy Awards. It was overwhelming, and I definitely had to leave fear at the door.

Awards Definitely Done Door
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My favorite time to dance is at, like, wedding receptions, when it's all ages and everyone seems to be having fun.

Ages Dance Everyone Favorite
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I think things through a lot, so I probably use my head more than my heart. That probably comes through in my acting.

Acting Head Heart IThink
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