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Some of the burdens we carry include false weight, perhaps to make up for all the horrible stuff we actually did and forgot.

Burden False Make Horrible
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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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Now that I have found someone, I'm feeling more alone... than I ever have before.

Alone Before Ever Feeling
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The reason I stop playing songs is usually because I get sick of them, and then they find themselves back into the set list at some point

Back Because Find Get
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I do have that mindset - that most good art comes from some turmoil, from someone trying to come to some equilibrium, or come up and get a breath.

Art Breath Come Equilibrium
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But I really do have a soft spot for the solo shows. Any musician who writes and sings will tell you that's the center of it, that is it. It's almost like there's something church-like about it and you gotta go back there, if you're a songwriter that sings your material.

About Almost Any Back
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The nature of honesty is that if someone has information or knows something about you that you don't want heard, then they have power over you

About Heard Honesty HonestyIs
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There is still some art in pop music. But it can't happen if you're not inspired.
Art Happen Inspired Music
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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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Some of the greatest survivors have been women. Look at the courage so many women have shown after surviving earthquakes in the rubble for days on end.

After Been Courage Days
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Look, sometimes, no matter how hard you try, sometimes you need a bit of luck.

Bit Hard How Look
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I think viewers quite like it when I'm suffering or eating or drinking something horrible or really up against it in some quicksand or whatever.

Against Drinking Eating Horrible
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Life's full of lots of dream-stealers always telling you you need to do something more sensible. I think it doesn't matter what your dream is, just fight the dream-stealers and hold onto it.

Always Dream Fight Full
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What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive.

What Keeps You Going
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Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.

Sometimes The Strength Motherhood
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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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Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.

Empathy Really The Opposite
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Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.

Good Novels Fiction Creates
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Every time I write a new novel about something sombre and sobering and terrible I think, 'oh Lord, they're not going to want to go here'.

Every Time Write New
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“Whenever you have to deal with a boy who is a rebel, remember that you must not fail at some time or other to get him to face the question, Are you going to be a fighter or quarreler?”

Remember Boy Rebel Fail
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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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For me, writing time has always been precious, something I wait for and am eager for and make the best use of. That's probably why I get up so early and have writing time in the quiet dawn hours, when no one needs me.

For Me Writing Always
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I know that some girls look up to me for certain things, like dyslexia, and that way I know that they like me for me, so it adds no pressure.

Adds Certain CertainThings Dyslexia
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“When there’s something in the Bible that churches don’t like, they call it legalism.”

Something Bible Churches Legalism
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“One of these days some simple soul will pick up the book of God, read it, and believe it. Then the rest of us will be embarrassed.”

God Book Days Believe
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“Some Day Someone is going to pick up this book (The Bible) and believe it, and put us all to shame.”

Someday Pick book Bible Shame
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“If Thou canst do something with us and through us, then please, God, do something without us! Bypass us and take up a people who now know Thee not!”

God Bypass Something
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I'm really into tall boots. I just got some new ones from Michael Kors that have these little gold studs. I have Valentino ones that I really love. Real, real tall boots!

Boots Gold Got Just
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Sometimes I am two people. Johnny is the nice one. Cash causes all the trouble. They fight.

Sometimes People Two Cash
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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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Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.
Adversity Causes Men Break
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Everyone suffers some injustice in life, and what better motivation than to help others not suffer in the same way.
Better Everyone Help HelpOthers
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When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.

Seek Discover Best Ourselves
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I aim to direct as much as I act at some point in time.
Act Aim Direct Much
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You spend enough time on set as an actor and it's great when a director was at some point an actor or understands acting. They're able to finesse performances out of you that a lot directors can't get.

Able Acting Actor Director
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Every love story needs a catalyst of some sort.
Catalyst Every Love Love Story
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Love is tested in so many ways. How do I articulate this? Two people are together. There are stakes, strife, struggles, all these things that make us fall for someone, love someone even more, leave someone.

Articulate Even Fall How
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When you're really close to someone, they can make fun of you a lot and get away with it. But they sort of poke you in all of the right places.

Away Close Fun Get
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I do what I do. You like it, great. You don't, go listen to somebody else. I'm stickin' with the people who stuck with me.

Else Go Great Like
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As an actor, you always think that whatever job you have is going to be your last. In some way, shape or form, you think you're going to screw it up and you're never going to work again.

Actor Again Always Form
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The quality of life is so much higher anyplace you can ski in the morning and surf in the evening - there's something to be said for that.

Evening Higher Life Morning
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I was ready to get out of the box and play something a little different than what everybody has seen.

Box Different Everybody Get
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The best thing I've done with my money is buy a house for my family. You wake up to a house you love and you feel like somebody.

Best Buy Done Family
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I think that everybody needs somebody to really look up to and know that even though you're going through a tough time, you'll get over it.
Even Everybody Get Going
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Sometimes when you're relegated to your neighborhood, you forget that there's more important things than your neighborhood going on out in the world.

Forget Going Important Important Things
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Music is where I have the most creative freedom, but I love producing. To me, that's kind of where all the action is. You get a chance to have your hands in every aspect of a film. From picking a director, sometimes picking a writer, to the actors, the wardrobe, set design, editing, music, and marketing.

Action Actor Aspect Chance
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The best way to listen to the album is to put it on, get some Moet, lay back with your boys, and kick it.

Album Back Best Best Way
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Sometimes people mistake the way I talk for what I am thinking.

Am I Am Mistake People
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I mean rappin' to me is easy, it's something you can do over a week.

Easy Me Mean Over
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