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A classic man is a distinguished man. He cares about taste and his craft. He's all about the simple model that I live by - eat, drink, be swanky, and have fun getting the job done.

Classic Man Distinguished Man
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I myself have been scrutinized by militaries police, but I know officers who actually handle themselves in a certain way that makes me feel safe.

I Myself Have Been
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We grew up in abject poverty. Acting, writing scripts and skits were a way of escaping our environment at a very young age.

Abject Acting Age Environment
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I suffered from low self-esteem for much of my life. And now to feel like maybe something that I'm projecting or saying could mean something to someone means a lot to me.

Could Feel Life Like
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I have been down and out, living in Brooklyn, no money even for a subway, no food whatsoever. Like, I remember just sitting in my room all day - even my television wasn't working!

All Day Been Brooklyn Day
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The reason I became an actress is because I wanted my acting to reflect life as it is. I want to put truth on the screen. I want real women to see real women on the screen.

Acting Actress Became Because
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I always feel terrified whenever I put my work out there to be seen, to be scrutinized. I think it's a very vulnerable thing that we are asked to do.

Always Asked Feel I Think
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I don't care if someone is new to acting or experienced in acting: you always learn something from them. It's just like people in life - whether they're young or middle-aged or old, you always learn something from someone.

Acting Always Care Don't Care
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A good editor understands what you're talking and writing about and doesn't meddle too much.
About Editor Good Meddle
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Writing is finally play, and there's no reason why you should get paid for playing.

Finally Get No Reason Paid
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Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it.

Contact Enjoy Football Get
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I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.

Sorry Point Life Extinct
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Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.

Man Problems Solved Destiny
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When I was a boy, I was sagging my pants like everyone else. Some boys become men and continue to sag their pants because that's their form of rebellion.

When I Was Boy
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In music, I wanted to make sure I was innovating.

In Music Wanted Make
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In 1999, I just came out of putting out the song 'Vivrant Thing' and 'Breathe and Stop' off the 'Amplified' album. Clive Davis signed me to Arista.

Album Amplified Breathe Came
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I don't dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting.

Babies Disgusting Dislike I Think
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In the 2000s, I became an artist. I started preserving and educating. I became more obsessed with making iPod playlists for people.

Artist Became Educating IPod
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I'm a 24-hour tweet machine, I'm a 24-hour blogger. When there's no pressure on me, I can talk and write and lecture with the best of them. But put a deadline on me and I start getting writer's block.

Best Block Deadline Getting
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Everything is possible in Nigeria, only those benefiting from the countries chaos and backwardness will say different.

Nigeria Possible Chaos Backwardness
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The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.

Essence Followed Independently Instinct
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Stories serve the purpose of consolidating whatever gains people or their leaders have made or imagine they have made in their existing journey thorough the world.

Existing Gains Imagine Journey
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My mother was an activist; so was my father. They came from a generation of young Somalis who were actively involved in getting independence for Somalia in 1960.

Actively Activist Came Father
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It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life.

Life Essence Creating Learn
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When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.

Ready Reason Man Spend
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The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.

Assertion Men Created Equally
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I am like a man so busy in letting rooms in one end of his house, that he can't stop to put out the fire that is burning the other.

Rooms End House Like
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Let the people on both sides keep their self-possession, and just as other clouds have cleared away in due time, so will this, and this great nation shall continue to prosper as before.

People Self-possession Clouds Nation
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I pass my life in preventing the storm from blowing down the tent, and I drive in the pegs as fast as they are pulled up.

I Pass Life Preventing
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When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.
Hear Preach See Act
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The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.

Improve Young Man Rise
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I hold that while man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.

Man Exist Improve Own
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It is fitting that a liar should be a man of good memory.

Be A Man Fitting Good Good Memory
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I've never really understood why people sleep. Wasting a third of your life and becoming vulnerable for almost 8 hours every night. Doesn't seem very appealing to me.

Never Understand People Sleep.life
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God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.

All-Powerful Animals Architect Character
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It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy's mind from effort.

Boy Correcting Discourage Effort
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I don't want to be thought of as a survivor because you have to continue getting involved in difficult situations to show off that particular gift, and I'm not interested in doing that anymore.

Anymore Because Continue Difficult
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Acting engenders and harbours qualities that are best left way behind in adolescence.

Acting Adolescence Behind Best
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Egos are an occupational hazard in acting, but I don't have much of one, and my husband doesn't have much of one, so it's good.

Acting Egos Good Hazard
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It became motivation as opposed to something else - the thing about poverty is that it starts affecting your mind and your spirit because people don't see you. I chose from a very young age that I didn't want that for my life. And it very much has helped me appreciate and value the things that are in my life now because I never had it.

About Affecting Age Appreciate
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We are always getting ready to live but never living.

Always Getting Live Living
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The universe is reflecting my energy!

Universe Reflecting My energy
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Letters are something from you. It's a different kind of intention than writing an e-mail.

Different Intention Kind Letters
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We never do Valentine's dinner, because everybody, they look. On Valentine's, imagine me and David going to a restaurant! Like, everybody's going to say, 'Did they talk? Did they hold hands?' Twenty years. We've been married twenty years!

Because Been David Did
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I speak five languages besides mine. I went to school in Egypt because girls weren't allowed to go to school in Saudi Arabia. It's very restricting, especially for girls; we're not allowed to go anywhere.

Allowed Anywhere Arabia Because
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I'm against a signature look, as that can be very outdating. But having said that, I also know my best qualities, so I'm not going to foolhardily give away my power.

Against Also Away Best
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I started at 5 years old in the kitchen table with my family supporting me. I know where I'm from and I know exactly where I'm going.

Exactly Old Family Kitchen
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I'll be truly happy when we're not counting the number of ethnically diverse models on a fashion runway or campaign, when having a representation of the entire human race is the norm and not an exception.

Campaign Counting Diverse Entire
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When you see a parent pass, and you literally are there, and you're sitting at that deathbed, man, and you have to tell them to go, it defines life for what it really is.

Deathbed Defines Go Life
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Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.

Centuries Figure Glasses Looking
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