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IM is interesting because you look at your buddy list and, at a glance, see what your friends are listening to, what they're working on, what they're doing. The problem was that you were bound to the computer keyboard.

Because Bound Buddy Computer
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I was opposed to doing TV for a long time because I thought the quality of writing wasn't very strong, as opposed to film, but there's been a shift in term of the quality of scripts. HBO has attracted a tremendous amount of great writing talent.

Amount Attracted Because Been
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Entertainment came out of this thing called a television, and it was gray. Most of the films that we saw at the cinema were black and white. It was a gray world. And music somehow was in color.

Black Came Cinema Color
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I don't really know any other musicians like me. I grew up backstage with my dad who played in a post-war dance band, so I always feel at home at a venue.

Always Any Backstage Band
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I should call people back more readily. I'm not the best friend sometimes in terms of that. I do follow that white balloon and get distracted a lot.

Back Balloon Best BestFriend
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Backstage, I get sleepy, and want to curl up and snooze. I never get nervous, whatever the event. I feel quite detached until I walk on stage, and then some gear inside me clicks and off I go like a wind up doll.

Backstage Clicks Curl Detached
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Keith Moon is not interested in jazz and won't ever be a jazz drummer because he's more interested in looking good and being screamed at.

Because Being Drummer Ever
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To be completely honest, I think if I hadn't been bullied into the band, I would have been happier as an art student. I would have been happier in a Brian Eno world.

Art Band Been Brian
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Although I dig my guitar playing, I think it's kind of an obvious situation; I play what I want to play within my own restrictions.

Although Dig Guitar Kind
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My father had played the guitar when he was young, and my uncle Jack had worked for Kalamazoo, before the war, developing guitar pickups. So there was a kind of family thing about the guitar, although it was considered something of an anomaly then.

About Although Anomaly Before
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English banjo players really were a law unto themselves - you don't find that kind of brisk banjo playing on the original Louis Armstrong or Bix Beiderbecke records.

Armstrong Banjo English Ind
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In order to have faith, or follow any other organized religion, I'd have to suspend a degree of disbelief.

Any Degree Disbelief Faith
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I don't view the fans in the way that most performers do. As a mass of people who have paid money, I know what they want. It's a very, very, very, very, very low common denominator.

Common Denominator Fans Know
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I'm a private person in many ways.
Many Person Private PrivatePerson
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I'm less interested in how people are following each other and more interested in how they are following topics and tweets themselves. People are following more key words and concepts and more ideas and acting on those rather than individuals or organizations.

Acting Concepts Each Following
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You get recessions, you have stock market declines. If you don't understand that's going to happen, then you're not ready, you won't do well in the markets.

Get Going Happen Markets
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I think Twitter is best when it sparks conversations elsewhere. To use YouTube and Facebook and all the tools we have available to us today to respond and also promote and answer and engage is awesome.

Also Answer Available Awesome
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If you go to Minnesota in January, you should know that it's gonna be cold. You don't panic when the thermometer falls below zero.

Below Cold Falls Go
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Everyone has the brainpower to follow the stock market. If you made it through fifth-grade math, you can do it.

Everyone Follow Made Market
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Go for a business that any idiot can run - because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to run it.

Any Because Business Go
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I think actors get too comfortable. I like being uncomfortable as an actor because it keeps you alive. I don't know, I think it's important.

Actor Actor Alive Because
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My brother, who's a violinist now, was the real ham, the real performer of the family. His passion for the violin is the only thing that kept him from being an actor.

Actor Being Brother Family
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I'm on 'Game Of Thrones,' and every time we have someone new coming on our show, we welcome them with open arms and get revitalised by this new presence. Then we kill them off very quickly.

Arms Coming Every EveryTime
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My favourite superhero? I have a soft spot for Batman, because he doesn't have any super powers - he's just a person. And he's pretty dark.

Any Batman Because Dark
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A lot of directors straight out of film school are very technically minded, but they don't have an understanding of actors or how to talk to them.

Actor Directors Film FilmSchool
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I don't like people being cautious and tentative and choosing their words carefully around me because I'm a dwarf.

Around Because Being Carefully
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I am this guy who's four and a half feet tall, but my life doesn't constantly address it.

Address Am Constantly Feet
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Jen Lawrence is quite a fan of 'Game of Thrones.'

Fan Game GameOfThrones Lawrence
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I'm one of those who can't read the books after they've seen the movie.

After Books Movie Read
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We're not environmentally doing very good things to this planet, and we might not be around too long.

Around Doing Environmentally Good
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Every person my size has a different life, a different history. Different ways of dealing with it. Just because I'm seemingly O.K. with it, I can't preach how to be O.K. with it. I don't think I still am O.K. with it. There's days when I'm not.

Am Because Days Dealing
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If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.

Difficult Enjoy Keep Living
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We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.

Beautiful Being Constantly Cups
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Once the automobile appeared you could have predicted that it would destroy as many people as it did.

Appeared Automobile Could Destroy
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Never try to win over those who dislike you for your convictions and beliefs. They’re not the barometer of life. The best way to treat them is to ignore them whilst firmly defending those beliefs until their anger turns to solemn resignation and their hatred turns to quiet admiration

Never try Win Dislike Conviction
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It is quite sad that we have pushed ourselves to the point in this country that when any public appointment is announced, most Nigerians would first research the tribe of the appointee before they research his academic qualifications and competence for the job!

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I just finished participating in a virtual meeting of the Federal Executive Council, the first ever after the last one held on March 18th, 2020. Subsequent meetings were suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Finished Virtual meeting Suspended Pandemic
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We have too many cellphones. We've got too many internets. We have got to get rid of those machines. We have too many machines now.

Get Got Machines Many
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The panic and paranoia over the virus have become more deadly and infectious than the virus itself! What we need is deliberate calmness and extreme caution as we meticulously follow all the guidelines of WHO and NCDC daily. Panic always compounds every emergency situation.

Panic Paranoia Virus Deadly
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Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

Fall Get Key Live
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We are anthill men upon an anthill world.

Men World
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My personal view is that another total lockdown would be counterproductive. Before defeating the virus, we must learn to live with it all around us and practice the skills of avoiding it like a landmine. Practice makes perfect. We cannot perfect those skills by locking ourselves up

Personal view Lockdown Counterproductive
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Even as a private lawyer, I had enough layers in my skin to take everything anyone threw at me without responding, even including insults, except when an allegation of a SPECIFIC nature with PROOF is made. As a public officer, I have even fortified that disposition the more

Private lawyer Layers Skin Allegation
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I wonder how we came to a point where our affection towards fellow humans is dictated only by political, tribal and religious sentiments.

Wonder Point Affection Human
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Whilst it is perfectly in order to constructively criticize public officers’ official actions and policies, it is absolutely wrong to make judgments about people’s characters to the extent of using foul language to describe them without having personal interactions with them.

Perfectly Constructively criticize Public officers
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. Posthumous eulogies teach us that people who dislike you also quietly admire your sterling qualities. The dislike only stems from their frustration as a result of their inability to make you accept their convictions about things that are dear to them like religion or politics

Posthumous eulogies Dislike you Admire
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So if you make the dislike or perception of people the barometer by which you adjust your life-pattern, then you have completely missed it. Live your life according to the dictates of your conscience and your natural inclinations, so long as they’re within the bounds of legality

Perception People Barometer Life
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Public officers must always bear in mind the cliche that power is transient. They have limited time to make their modest contributions and bow out for others to continue. No one can annex public office as a personal chattel. That’s why I recoil from the razzmatazz of public office.

Public officers Mind Power Limited time
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Since most viruses that cause pandemics (e.g Ebola, COVID-19) are contracted from animals, why can’t the world invest heavily in isolating these viruses in animals & develop human vaccines for them in anticipation that one day humans might contract the viruses from these animals?

Most viruses Animals World invest
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The greatest lesson of COVID-19 is that it has blurred all the irrelevant differences of mankind which are politics, tribe & religion. It has slapped our brains back to reset mode and teaches us that the essence of life is about our common humanity and our common survival as a race

Blurred Irrelevant differences Mankind
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