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An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.

Autobiography Boring Book Life
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A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul, and that, I am sure, is why he does it
Become Writer Person Absolute
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As an adopted person, once you find out about that 'other' side of yourself, it's almost like you find out who you really are.

About Adopted Almost Find
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Myths give us our sense of personal identity, answering the question, 'Who am I?'

Am Answering Give Identity
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You've got a song you're singing from your gut, you want that audience to feel it in their gut. And you've got to make them think that you're one of them sitting out there with them too. They've got to be able to relate to what you're doing.

Able Audience Doing Feel
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I think the kitchen is the new garage. And I think for a guy that wants to go out and be an evolved person, he should know about his local favorite restaurant. He should know how to cook something.

About Cook Evolved Favorite
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The reasons for food insecurity are many and varied. But part of the problem is the global farming systems.

Farming Food Global Insecurity
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An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc

An artist Prisoner
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It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression.

Years Preparation Young artist Color
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I have simply wished to assert the reasoned and independent feeling of my own individuality within a total knowledge of tradition.

Wished Assert Reasoned Independent feeling
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I believe that before all else I am a reasonable human being, just as you are--or, at all events, that I must try and become one.

Believe Reasonable Human being
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If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do.
Ask Busy Busy Person Done
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You cannot know God unless you are at peace. Even angels can only work in your life when you are at peace. This is the reason why, every time they appeared to a person in the Bible to deliver a message, they first said, 'Peace be still.'

Peace First Deliver Person
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We were not created to just get on by with average, ordinary or mediocre lives. God created us to make lasting marks in this generation. He designed us to be extraordinary. Indeed, every person has seeds of greatness embedded within them, and by watering those seeds with the word of God, they can sprout forth and flourish.

Flourish Forth Seeds Average
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I made my first complete song when I was 9.
Complete First Made Song
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I'm always in that mode - whenever I have a little free time, I'm always recording songs, writing, whatever I gotta do. It's like my job is my vacation.

Always Free Free Time Gotta
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'Ludacris' is something that I made up. It just kind of describes me. Sometimes I have like a split personality. Sometimes I'm cool, calm, and collected, and other times I'm beyond crazy.

Beyond Calm Collected Cool
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A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.

Does Door Him Imprisoned
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A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.

Any Comparison Consciousness Exhibition
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A fact is like a sack - it won't stand up if it's empty. To make it stand up, first you have to put in it all the reasons and feelings that caused it in the first place.

Caused Empty Fact Feelings
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I always want to have a personal relationship with everybody that works for me.

Always Everybody Me Personal
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You always have to work to become a better singer, songwriter and performer.

Always Become Better Performer
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Nothing is more rewarding than to take a song, create it out of thin air and then watch it affect people.

Affect Air Create More
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With every album, the approach is find the best songs you can find, write the best songs you can write and try to sound better.

Album Approach Best Better
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I think 'Country Girl' is one song that can veer into country or hip-hop or rap. You can listen to it and enjoy the humor and the fun in it.

Country Enjoy Fun Girl
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When you look into the eyes of your people out there that came to see you, that's when it's like, 'Yep, this is what it's all about.' This is why we don't sleep, and this is why we write songs and try to be the best. This moment right here onstage.

About Best Came Eyes
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My best artist friend is definitely Jason Aldean. He and I really get along great and are really great friends. It's fun to tour with a buddy and somebody that I just enjoy hanging out with. If we weren't touring together, we'd be hunting in the off-season still and knocking around doing stuff, certainly.

Along Around Artist Best
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Early in my songwriting career, when I was learning a lot about writing songs, I'd force myself to sit down until I came up with something.

About Came Career Down
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'Tailgate Blues' is kind of a lyrical masterpiece of a country song.

Blues Country Kind Lyrical
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I think it's always important to constantly keep the band on their toes and try new things that you hope will work. That's how 'Apologize' was born, and maybe down the line another little song will be born by that mentality. I've always really liked that song.

Always Another Apologize Band
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'Dirt Road Diaries,' in my mind, is a perfect country guy song. It speaks to the hard-working guy, and I'm excited for the fans to hear that one.

Country Diaries Dirt Excited
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I will always really work hard to write as much as I can, but I also love sitting back and waiting on those big Nashville songwriters to send me some great songs, too.

Also Always Back Big
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Approach every challenge as an opportunity because a negative person has never really created anything.

Approach Challenge Opportunity Negative person
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I wrote the song For A Dancer for a friend of mine who died in a fire. He was in the sauna in a house that burned down, so he had no idea anything was going on. It was very sad.

Anything Burned Dancer Died
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I'd have to say that my favorite thing is writing a song that really says how I feel, what I believe - and it even explains the world to myself better than I knew it.

Believe Better Even Explains
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I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse - and that led to writing my own songs.

About Add Extra Friend
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That folk music led to learning to play, and making things up led to what turns out to be the most lucrative part of the music business - writing, because you get paid every time that song gets played.

Because Business Every Every Time
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The biggest influence? I've had several at different times - but the biggest for me was Bob Dylan, who was a guy that came along when I was twelve or thirteen and just changed all the rules about what it meant to write songs.

About Along Biggest Biggest Influence
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As far as those kinds of things, I also played at the concert to call for the release of Nelson Mandela when he was a political prisoner in South Africa. We were celebrating his 70th birthday and calling for his release.

Africa Also As Far As Birthday
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I don't avoid anything. In my songs I just choose to talk about certain things, and so yeah, there are some aspects of my character and personality that don't come out.

About Anything Aspects Avoid
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Every successful person has a painful story and Every painful story has a successful ending, Accept the pain and get ready for success.

Every successful Painful story Ending
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If you have a friend whose friendship you wouldn’t recommend to your sister, or your father, or your son, why would you have such a friend for yourself?

Friends Recommend Sister Father
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What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail? This is exactly what your focus should be on. Jettison the fear of failure. Go for it.

Attempt Go for it Fail Focus
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
Identity Idle Personal Requires
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People change. I wouldn't like to be accountable for the interviews I've done, or the person I was when I was 20, 21.

Accountable Change Done Interviews
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I did the rock 'n roll-pop cliche of getting burnt out. I'm not the first person that happened to, and I'm sure I won't be the last.

Burnt Cliche Did First
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I'm a born entertainer. When I open the fridge door and the light goes on, I burst into song.

Born Burst Door Entertainer
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You know, I am a mainstream person with mainstream tastes, and I want to hear the hits.

Am Hear Hits IAm
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Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.

Power Poison Tragic
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I was moved by the 'Lovings' story because of my own background as a mixed-race person.

Background Because Moved Own
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