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The one thing I regret is missing the time with my older children when they were young.

Children Missing Older One Thing
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When I was thirty, and a long time after that, I felt like I had to leave home to do what I had to do. Now, it's just the opposite.

After Felt Had Home
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I always had to wait until something hit me, and I could write it. But when I would cut an album, to me it represented the time that I spent since the last one. Just the way I was looking at the world.

Album Always Could Cut
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Those 'Idol' shows are kind of scary to me. They wanted me to be on one of those panels one time, and I said it's the last thing in the world I'd ever want to do. I would hate to have to discourage somebody.

Discourage Ever Hate Idol
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I am grateful every morning I wake up. I've a big family full of kids, who laugh all the time and love each other.

Am Big Big Family Each
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Everything that I write is sort of autobiographical, and I don't know that I'm getting better, but I'm certainly running out of time.

Autobiographical Better Certainly Everything
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You've got to find ways to breathe while you're dancing so that when it comes time for you to stop and sing again, you have it. To prepare, I do a lot of aerobic activity. Many times at the gym, people will look at me because I'll be on the treadmill humming.

Activity Aerobic Again Because
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I'm trying to learn, as I'm in my 40s, to embrace what I've been able to achieve and be proud of it. And I know there's roles that I will want to play before I die, but I'm still just taking one day at a time.

Able Achieve Been Before
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I read my Bible and I pray and all of that. I really do. But at the same time, I don't think being gay is a sin. Period.

Being Bible Gay Period
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His death was the first time that Ed Wynn ever made anyone sad

Anyone Death Ever First
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Any kid will run any errand for you, if you ask at bedtime.

Any Ask Bedtime Kid
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I think that charity is a tricky thing, because a lot of times, people equate charity with handouts. I don't believe in handouts.

Because Believe Charity Equate
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It's my job, too, to keep up with pop culture and what the kids are into 'cause you don't want to sound like an old man trying to write for kids. I spend a lot of my time spying on them.

Cause Culture Job Keep
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I drive a lot in the summertime, but after that, I don't drive if there's snow predicted for anywhere in 500 miles.

After Anywhere Drive Lot
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Believe it or not, my introduction to scary literature was 'Pinocchio.' My mother read it to me every day before naptime when I was three or four. The original 'Pinocchio' is terrifying.

Before Believe Day Every
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There is no legitimate actor who can resist the powerful lure of the movies. It isn't the money that fetches him. It isn't the great publicity. It is simply this: the movies enable an actor to look at himself.

Legitimate actor Powerful Movies
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A poet, any real poet, is simply an alchemist who transmutes his cynicism regarding human beings into an optimism regarding the moon, the stars, the heavens, and the flowers, to say nothing of Spring, love, and dogs.

A poet Alchemist Transmutes Regarding human
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Doing the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His plans.

God Leaves Disputing
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I believe you are your work. Don't trade the stuff of your life, time, for nothing more than dollars. That's a rotten bargain.

Bargain Believe Dollars I Believe
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Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times.

Before Fallen Few Husband
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Don't ask to live in tranquil times. Literature doesn't grow there.

Ask Grow Literature Live
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It's time to move on to the next step in the psychedelic revolution. We've reached a certain point, but we're not moving any more.

Any Certain Certain Point More
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The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
Butterfly Counts Enough Moments
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I usually hang out on the set. I get to know everybody. I have a nice time with the other actors.

Actor Everybody Get Hang
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If they're willing to pay you what you think you're worth for it, that's why an actor goes to work. A lot of times they want to pay you a lot for a picture you don't want to do.

Actor Goes Lot Pay
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When I was working on my career, I was very aware of what I had done, what I wanted to do next. I'm having a good time just reading things that might be interesting to do.

Aware Career Done Good
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I no longer look at my life and times in the motion picture industry as my career. I just look at it now as something I like and want to do.

Career Industry Just Life
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I can evaluate a player in a very short period of time because I'm very close to that game, very educated in that game and played the game for a long, long time. I wasn't just a guy with talent. I learned a lot about the game.

About Because Close Educated
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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 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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I'm taking special treatments for the cancer in my brain and in my liver. Part of the liver was removed, and they did the treatment on four places in my brain with radiation. And now I'm taking a long-term medicine that stimulates my own immune system to fight against cancer.

Against Brain Cancer Did
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I don't think that the total creation took place in six days as we now measure time. If we can confirm, say, the Big Bang theory, that doesn't at all cause me to question my faith that God created the Big Bang.

Bang Big Big Bang Cause
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I don't want to tell President Obama how to make a speech. He's a much better speech maker than I am. But I think always to tell the truth in a sometimes blatant way, even though it might be temporarily unpopular, is the best approach.

Always Am Approach Best
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Sometimes the motivator needs motivation. Sometimes the encourager needs encouragement. Sometimes the inspirer needs inspiration.

Motivator Motivation Encouragement Inspiration
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The lovemaking that conceived me must have been done deep in the night. It's my most productive time.

Lovemaking Conceived The night Deep
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I prefer to explore the most intimate moments, the smaller, crystallized details we all hinge our lives on.

Details Explore Hinge Intimate
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It's unfortunate that sometimes in schools, there's this need to have things quantified and graded.

Need Schools Sometimes Things
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When things are bad, it's the best time to reinvent yourself.

Things Bad Best time Reinvent
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I didn't come from a background where I saw a lot of loving couples. All my aunts and uncles were either split up or fighting all the time. The only healthy relationships I saw were on TV.

Come from Background Loving couples
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When I look at the Gospel, I see how it is speaking to me at this time. I see how to be to others and it helps.

Look at Gospel Speaking How
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It's not even about black and white anymore, because so many people are from mixed backgrounds and mixed ethnicities, and it's just a great time to be able to pull all that together.

About black White Many people Mixed backgrounds
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People write me from all over the country, asking me, and sometimes even telling me, what they think a poet laureate should do. I found that immensely valuable.

Asking Country Even Found
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It's the combination of the intimate and the public that I find so exciting about being poet laureate.
About Being Combination Exciting
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Even in high school I was very interested in history - why people do the things they do. As a kid I spent a lot of time trying to relate the past to the present.

High school Interested History People do
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I'm not much of a math and science guy. I spent most of my time in school daydreaming and managed to turn it into a living.
Spent My time School daydreaming Living
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Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.

Child Dismiss First First Time
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There should be a point to movies. Sure, you're giving people a diversion from the cold world for a bit, but at the same time, you pass on some facts and rules and maybe a little bit of wisdom.

Movies People Diversion World
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I realized why directors are such horrible people - in a way - because you want things to be right, and people will just not listen to you, and there is no time to be nice to people, no time to be delicate.

Realized Director Horrible people Right
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An idea has been running in my head that books lose and gain qualities in the course of time, and I have worried over it a good deal, for what seemed to be a paradox, I felt to be a truth.

Idea Running Books Gain qualities
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There is an intimate connection between the life of the Christian here and the enjoyment and the glory in the day of Christ's appearing

Intimate connection Life Christian Enjoyment
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