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Well, the stuff that has become more commercial doesn't have any edge.

Any Become Commercial Edge
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I'm a little bit damaged in about 15 different ways, and it's been nice that no particular damaged area has become a major issue. I'm a more than moderately healthy 65-year-old male who has gotten away with a lot of stuff.

About Area Away Become
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I think that music is still art, even if it's commercialised.
Art Even I Think Music
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I like 'Ab Fab;' I love the crazy stuff they wear. That's my favourite! I love 'Ab Fab.'

Crazy Favourite I Love Like
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If you give a good performance, something that gets some feeling across to people, that's such a rare gift. It's underestimated at this point in history, when the music biz is inevitably turning into a kind of politics.

Across Feeling Gets Gift
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'Punk rock' is a word used by dilettantes and heartless manipulators about music that takes up the energies, the bodies, the hearts, the souls, the time and the minds of young men who give everything they have to it.

About Bodies Energies Everything
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The people who were learning from me tended to be more commercial performers who were gonna rip off the salient idea to do it in a way that will sell, but they weren't going for the music.

Commercial Going Gonna Idea
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My general take on American music since 1969 is that it's just getting stiffer and people are getting more uptight - audience, performance, and palace guard.

American American Music Audience General
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At university, I had been obsessed with reading about the lives of Rimbaud and Baudelaire, and I was steeped in the crazy poets, and I came to view my early subjects through that prism.

About Been Came Crazy
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I always say: 'Share your happiness with the world, give other people that happiness and let it come back,' but some things make me question it. I don't know if I want some people to know that I am happy. I think a lot of people want to take it away from you, and that's really scary.

Always Am Away Back
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It's fair to say that I have a side that is prudent and a side that is not.

Fair Prudent Say Side
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Something I like to do a lot is just sit by water when there's a current and just stare into the water. I don't fish, I don't hunt, I don't scuba, I don't spear, don't boat, don't play basketball or football - I excel at staring into space. I'm really good at that.

Basketball Boat Current Excel
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I love musk oil. There's something about musk that makes it memorable without being overpowering.

About Being I Love Love
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Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question.

Different Driving Even Fiction
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I've never heard a man in a suit tell me what to wear; that's not their forte. You hire your stylist; whatever someone's image is as an artist is what they've chosen to portray.

Artist Chosen Forte Heard
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You'd think that radio was around long enough that someone would have coined a word for staring into space.

Around Enough Long Radio
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In some theoretical way I know that a half-million people hear the show. But in a day-to-day way, there's not much evidence of it.

Day-To-Day Evidence Hear Know
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But sadly, one of the problems with being on public radio is that people tend to think you're being sincere all the time.

Being One Of The Problems People Problems
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One reason I do the live shows - and the monthly speeches at public radio stations - is to remind myself that people hear the show, that it has an audience, that it exists in the world. It's so easy to forget that.

Audience Easy Exists Forget
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I don't take care of my voice at all, which is one reason that I sound as bad as I do.

Bad Care Reason Sound
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“Who in the world am I? Ah, that’s the great puzzle.”

World Great Puzzle
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“I’d give all the wealth that years have piled, the slow result of life’s decay, to be once more a little child for one bright summer day.”

Wealth Piled Decay Bright
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“One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.”

Deep Secrets Life Really
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It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backward.

Poor Memory Backward
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“If you’ll believe in me, I’ll believe in you. Is that a bargain?”
Believe Bargain
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“When I used to read fairy-tales, I fancied that kind of thing never happened, and now here I am in the middle of one!”

Fairy-tales Happened Fancied Middle
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“That’s the reason they’re called lessons, the Gryphon remarked: because they lessen from day to day.”

Reason Lesson Lessen Gryphon
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A screen actor is compensated in the knowledge that millions will see his performance at one time, where only hundreds will see it on the stage.

Actor His Hundreds Knowledge
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Trust is hard to come by. That's why my circle is small and tight. I'm kind of funny about making new friends.

Trust Hard Come That's
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When 'Paul's Boutique' came out, I was one of the fans that didn't get it.

When Fan Paul's Boutique
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It'd be stupid for me to sit here and say that there aren't kids who look up to me, but my responsibility is not to them. I'm not a baby sitter.

Be Stupid For Me
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I think stupid people are surprised that I'm Australian. It's a small-minded; we live in a global community, but I suppose some people still are small-minded.

Australian Community Global I Think
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There are many females in my life I couldn't function on a daily basis without who I've purposely put there that work with me.

Basis Daily Daily Basis Females
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I am God's wheat, and I shall be ground by the teeth of beasts, that I may become the pure bread of Christ.

Am Beasts Become Bread
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You must all follow the lead of the bishop, as Jesus Christ followed that of the Father; follow the presbytery as you would the Apostles; reverence the deacons as you would God's commandment.

Apostles Bishop Christ Commandment
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I want to solidify as an artist and show that as I grow as a person and make mistakes and learn from them, I'm going to grow artistically.

Want Solidify An Artist
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I am writing to all the churches to let it be known that I will gladly die for God if only you do not stand in my way... Let me be food for the wild beasts, for they are my way to God.

Am Beasts Churches Die
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Pray to Christ for me that the animals will be the means of making me a sacrificial victim for God.

Animals Christ God Making
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It sometimes feels like a strange movie, you know, it's all so weird that sometimes I wonder if it is really happening.

Sometimes Feels Like Strange
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Let us therefore be of a reverent spirit, and fear the long-suffering of God, that it tend not to our condemnation.

Condemnation Fear God Let Us
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When you're a little kid, you don't see color, and the fact that my friends were black never crossed my mind.

Little Kid When Don't
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Only let it be in the name of Jesus Christ, that I may suffer together with Him! I endure everything because He Himself, Who is perfect man, empowers me.

Because Christ Empowers Endure
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They that are of the flesh cannot do the works of the Spirit, neither can they that are spiritual do the works of the flesh, even as faith cannot do the works of unbelief, nor unbelief the works of faith.

Cannot Even Faith Flesh
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I feel like in an interview situation, it's a kind of intimacy that I can understand and handle - versus in real life, when I'm much more of a bumbler and have a hard time.

Feel Handle Hard Hard Time
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I think one of the reasons that I got so good at it, as somebody making radio stories, is that on the radio I can actually - I can understand what's happening in the interview and can make a connection in a way that makes sense.

Actually Connection Good Got
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When I was very small, maybe 8 years old, we had a big radio that stood on four legs, and it had a cross piece underneath it, and I used to take a pillow and crawl under the radio.

Big Crawl Cross Four
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I think the name of the show, 'This American Life' - we named it that just because it seemed like it made the thing feel big. But we don't think about whether it's an American story or not. We happen to be Americans. I think for the stories to work, they have to be universal.

About American American American Life
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If I can get a story about a player, I would give you a ship load of numbers, batting averages and all just for that one precious story. That's the kind of thing that I love to do.

About Batting Get Give
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It's a wonderful feeling to be a bridge to the past and to unite generations. The sport of baseball does that, and I am just a part of it.

Am Baseball Bridge Does
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I'm not a go-in-for-the-kill kind of interviewer. It's a great thing to me, that kind of interviewer, but I'm not it. It doesn't play to my strengths at all. I like to interview people who are interested in telling their story and tell it as truthfully as they can.

Great Great Thing Interested Interview
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