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We're not one of those groups who have one song on the radio and, boom, they're an instant success. We worked hard from day one and didn't get a lot of respect, possibly because of the way we were marketed.

Because Boom Day Day One
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The songwriting did come naturally; it really did. Like Joe said, the first song we ever wrote together was the song that got us signed, you know, so it was either luck, fate, or something in between.

Between Come Did Either
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You have to connect with a song, and when you write it, that connection is already there. It's your baby; your passion is in that song.

Baby Connect Connection Passion
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For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness.

Darkness Gets Healing Hurt
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My version of 'Georgia' became the state song of Georgia. That was a big thing for me, man. It really touched me. Here is a state that used to lynch people like me suddenly declaring my version of a song as its state song. That is touching.

Became Big Big Thing Declaring
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I've got CDs in my car, listening all the time for that next song, because everybody's looking.

Because Car CDs Everybody
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You know, I get a lot of people pitching songs to me.

Get Know Lot Me
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But I like to listen to demos. I like to hear the finished product. It's like listening to a song - I mean, a story. If you're going to sit here and tell me a story, I just like to listen. I don't want to make them up.

Demos Finished FinishedProduct Going
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So, I took lessons, and I love to shoot now. It's a lot of fun.

Fun ILove Lessons Lot
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Never have doubted it, even when the plane crash happened. I wasn't mad at God. I just knew that there was a reason that I didn't know about why it happened.

About Crash Doubted Even
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To me, there's two types of songs, good and bad. And I just like to stick with the good ones.

Bad Good GoodAndBad GoodOnes
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I was singing a lot of waltzes. And I was with Jerry Kennedy, my producer, and he was playing me some songs, and he said, hey, I want to play you this song that I'm going to get Jackie Ward to record.

Get Going He Hey
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I think they want to keep it separate, but I've never been a crossover artist for some reason.

Artist Been Crossover IThink
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When you're a very ambitious person, the things that are disappointing are when other people around you aren't as enthusiastic.

Ambitious Around Disappointing Enthusiastic
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The biggest challenge in my life is getting all these kids raised. I've helped with nieces, stepchildren and my own son, so the biggest challenge is making sure the kids are raised and finding enough quality time with them.

Biggest BiggestChallenge Challenge Enough
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A good song has to have a great melody, and the lyrics have to touch my heart. Now, if it's just a little toe-tapper, got to make me feel good somehow or another, or when I sing it I can't make you feel good.

Another Feel FeelGood Good
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I've been writing songs since I was a little boy. You know, I think I wrote my first song when I was 11.

Been Boy First I Think
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I have a cheat-sheet for each one of my characters about their personality, the way they look, etc. So there is no possible way that I could have writer's block.

About Block Characters Could
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I've always been the kind of person who, if there's anything that can kill me, I want to know something about it.

About Always Anything Been
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Any artist, when he goes in to record, should have the feeling that any song he records can be a hit. This may sound egotistical, but it makes sense.

Any Artist Egotistical Feeling
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I've never forgotten a single record I cut or a song I wrote.
Cut Forgotten Never Record
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To me, the best love songs work on two - maybe three - different levels, where you're talking about the person who you're right opposite, and all the people like that.

About Best Different Different Levels
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I don't think I'm that good a singer. I can't think of a song that I've written that I don't like the way somebody else sings it better.

Better Else Good Like
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If it hadn't been for Johnny Cash, I'd probably have been a Nashville songwriter because that's what I had done for almost five years.

Almost Because Been Cash
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I used to think that my songs were the best things that I would leave behind me. And I definitely think my kids are now. For starters, they're writing better songs than I was at their age.

Age Behind Best Better
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Havin' Dylan cover one of your songs is like being a playwright and having Shakespeare act in your play.

Act Being Cover Dylan
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I personally believe we were put here to build and not to destroy.

Believe Build Destroy Here
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God's children and their happiness are my reasons for being.

Being Children God Happiness
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Ralph Waldo Emerson would definitely be my homeboy.

Definitely Ralph Would
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Impersonal criticism?is like an impersonal fist fight or an impersonal marriage, and as successful.
Impersonal criticism Fight Marriage Successful
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I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.

Alive Enjoy Figured Finally
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Doubt may be a poor encouragement to do anything, but it is a bad reason for doing nothing.

Doubt Poor Encouragement Reason
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I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Annoy Being Find Great
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It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
Annoy Find Great Life
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I think the reason I choose the comic approach so often is because it's harder, therefore affording me the opportunity to show off.

Approach Because Choose Comic
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I always look forward to working with Goldie because she's a great person to work with.

Always Because Forward Great
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When you first are in front of the camera as a young person, you'd be surprised at all the insecurities you can get.

Camera First Front Get
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Success is a meaningless word without failure. I have failed many times, but in every wrong turn, every misstep, there are important lessons. Embrace them.

Success Meaningless word Failure
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I personally have always been in favor of people who are gay being permitted to marry legally - and I still feel that way.

Always Been Being Favor
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I was totally dominated and revered my father. I admired everything he did. He was a great sports person. He loved me. I was his only boy at that time, before my brother Billy came along.

Admired Along Before Billy
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Because I know about the Holy Land, I've taught lessons about the Holy Land all my life, and - but you can't bring peace to Israel without giving the Palestinian also peace. And Lebanon and Jordan and Syria as well.

About All My Life Also Because
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Don’t be afraid of failure as long as you are doing everything within your power to succeed. The challenges we face in life are always lessons that serve as our personal growth.

Afraid Failure Power Succeed
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When I was elected President nobody asked me to negotiate between Israel and Egypt. It was not even a question raised in my campaign. But I felt that one of the reasons that I was elected President was to try to bring peace to the Holy Land.

Asked Between Bring Campaign
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I don't claim to be knowledgeable about theology. Most of my knowledge comes out of my experience and the lessons in the Bible. Every Sunday I'm home I teach 45 minutes and we boiled them down to one page for the new book, 'Through the Year with Jimmy Carter.'

About Bible Book Carter
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Jesus never said a word about homosexuality. In all of his teachings about multiple things - he never said that gay people should be condemned. I personally think it is very fine for gay people to be married in civil ceremonies.

About Ceremonies Civil Condemned
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I loved to read, but I always thought that the dream was too far away. The person who had written the book was a god, it wasn't a person.

Always Away Book Dream
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I live a reasonably simple life, off the beaten track.

Live Simple life Beaten track
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The wrong way always seems the more reasonable.
Wrong way Seems Reasonable
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An idea is so impersonal; it is yours today and the whole world's tomorrow.

An idea Impersonal Today Tomorrow
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The Lord Jesus, everything. In himself worse than nothing. By grace, in Christ, the son of the King.

Lord Jesus Worse Grace Christ
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