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I mean, there are some amazing storytelling being done on the small screen right now. That's what so cool about being in television right now. Studios, networks are starting to throw more resources, better writers, more production values... and to be part of that is awesome.

About Amazing Awesome Being
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They say I'm insane because I need to have so much creative control. They say I'm unmanageable, but I'm not. I just know what I like. I'm obsessed with it. If you can't control it, that's like having somebody else paint your pictures. How could you do that? I never could.

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That's one of the things about theater vs. film - with theater, actors have a little more control, and one of the disappointing things about films is that once you're done shooting, anything can happen, you know?

About Actor Anything Control
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I didn't start to collect records and listen to guitar players properly until I went to art school, when I'd already been playing for five years. So my style was already formed, and that's why I think it's so unique.

Art Been Collect Five
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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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Writing is getting killed by too many chefs. Back in the Bogart days, it started with great scripts. You had a writer, and he wrote a script, and that was your movie. I think that's been watered down a bit lately.

Back Been Bit Bogart
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The person that turns over the most rocks wins the game. And that's always been my philosophy.
Always Been Game Most
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You see, that's the problem I have with 'you people.'

People Problem See You
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I don't see myself as a philosopher. That's awfully boring.

Boring Myself Philosopher See
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I think sometimes people project things on you, but I'm trying to handle everything that's happened to me with a certain amount of grace, dignity and good manners. You just can't necessarily win all the time.

Amount Certain Dignity Everything
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I beg. I call. I badger. I cajole. Part of the secret is everyone has fun and that's really motivating.

Badger Beg Call Everyone
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I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life

Look Future Spend Life
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Everything that goes up must come down. But there comes a time when not everything that's down can come up.

Everything Goes up Come down
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A lot people I know - it drives them crazy when they're watching, to see the people with their signs and waving, but there's something that's very inclusive about it.

About Crazy Drives Inclusive
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The press is just not your friend when it comes to a marriage. That's why we didn't sell the pictures of our wedding, and we got offered millions of dollars for them, millions.

Dollars Friend Got Just
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I'm kind of a good girl - and I'm not. I'm a good girl because I really believe in love, integrity, and respect. I'm a bad girl because I like to tease. I know that I have sex appeal in my deck of cards. But I like to get people thinking. That's what the stories in my music do.

Appeal Bad Bad Girl Because
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I think people appreciate a songwriter who shows different sides. The whole angst thing is cool, but if that's all you've got, it's just boring. Everything I write, whether it's happy or sad, has a sense of humor to it.

Angst Appreciate Boring Cool
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When I was 13, I asked for a guitar. And that's how I really started explaining my point of view.

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People love the idea of a good girl gone bad, thinking that my parents were so strict and disowned me, but that actually wasn't the case. Even though they don't necessarily agree with some of the things I do, they love me as their daughter. That's always been their perspective.

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Well, I think the secret is if you have a lot of stocks, some will do mediocre, some will do okay, and if one of two of 'em go up big time, you produce a fabulous result. And I think that's the promise to some people.

Big Fabulous Go Lot
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Most often I am only interested in an idea if it's going to get hundreds of millions of users. That's the scale that I am always trying to play to.

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Zynga is about fun. Fun is important. Fun is good. And to have the ability to do something fun for 10 or 15 minutes that's right at your fingertips and involves your friends, well, that's better than television in terms of social connectivity.

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Entrepreneurs are like visionaries. One of the ways they run forward is by viewing the thing they're doing as something that's going to be the whole world.

Doing Entrepreneurs Forward Going
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Your network is the people who want to help you, and you want to help them, and that's really powerful.

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Yes, I've been trepanned. That's quite an interesting experience, especially for my brain surgeon, who saw my thoughts flying around in my brain.

Around Been Brain Experience
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About myself I have no great illusions. I know what I am. I know what I'm good at. I know what I ain't. I'm always hoping to surprise myself. But I do have a love of music and I do love to communicate it, and that's the best I can do, really. And I can raise a good family, too.

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The best thing is to always keep honest people around, because when you have a bunch of yes men around that know that you're making a mistake but let you go on with it, that's when it ruins your mind state as an artist.

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I think Dwight loves being number two. I don't think he has any desire to be number one. He wants to be number two no matter where he goes. It's like Avis. 'We try harder.' That's Dwight.

Any Being Desire Goes
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If you can maintain that integrity in whatever you do, you can't go wrong. That's what I tell my kids, anyway.

Maintain Integrity Go wrong
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People are used to music that justifies street culture but something that's not touched on is why these kids act the way they act, live the way they live.

Act Culture Justifies Kids
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The way people look at me these days - that's the same way I looked at President Obama before I met him. We tend to forget that people who've attained a certain position are human.

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I think that's why I put my energy into making music. That's how I get my thoughts out, instead of being crazy all the time.

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What is music anyway? It's a form of communication, and that's why I play the kind of music that I think - that I hope - can communicate with people.

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That's my ideal day, time with my boys.

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I don't play the traditional Charlie Parker songs. But I do improvise and I do create with my instrument, and that to me is jazz. But there are people who use the word 'jazz' only in a traditional sense, and they would be offended by that, and that's fine.

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I think everybody has to kind of decide what the word 'jazz' means to them, and that's fine.

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The joy we get as actors is out of transforming ourselves into something that's not necessarily anything true to ourselves. And it's a power - not being yourself, and being in the role; it's just like another prop.

Actor Another Anything Being
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I mean, what is music anyway? It's a form of communication - at least for me it is. And that's why I play the kind of music that I think - that I hope - can communicate with people.

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I've never really played golf. With the sax, I learned technique well enough so that it feels like part of my body, and I just express myself. That's where I want to get in golf.

Body Enough Express Feels
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I listen to old jazz and classical music, and that's it.

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Any saxophone player will have those influences come through in their music in a very different way. I can listen to the same 10 sax players as someone else for my entire life, and we'll both play completely differently. That's the beauty of being a musician.

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Generally, I like Indian music because the melodies are usually not too complex, which is how I like music, and that's the way I write music.

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I think it's really interesting to play a woman who can articulate that she isn't ready to have a family and isn't even sure if she wants a family. I have a lot of friends like that. But obviously, that's not me.

Articulate Even Family Friends
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Don't be surprised if you don't connect as a father right away. That's the one thing... No one ever talked to me about it.

About Away Connect Ever
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Music's been around a long time, and there's going to be music long after Ray Charles is dead. I just want to make my mark, leave something musically good behind. If it's a big record, that's the frosting on the cake, but music's the main meal.

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So much about religion has to do with rigid, sacrosanct preciousness. I don't live my life that way, and I don't feel that's what Baha'u'llah teaches.

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Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end.

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I'm a firm believer in God himself, but that's as far as I can go. I'm not any denomination. I'm not Catholic or Presbyterian or Baptist or Methodist or Jewish or Muslim. I'm none of those things. And I'm sure that's just fine with God.

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To me, music is entertainment - what else can it be? In fact, it's the only language I know of that's universal.
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The closest I've come to knowing myself is in losing myself. That's why I loved football before I loved music. I could lose myself in it.

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