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I spend my nights just sitting and reading a book and drinking my tea and walking my dog. That's about as exciting as my life gets.

About Book Dog Drinking
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My family had a habit of collecting creatures that didn't always want to be pets. The first animal I can remember was a Lab named Zoe.

Always Animal Collecting Creatures
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I just get silly inside my head and I start to think about something and in my head I start twisting it around, contorting it and envisioning it in different ways.

Head Start twisting Envisioning
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I think one thing that's important to maintain is a sense of fear, always doubting yourself... a good dose of insecurity helps your work in some ways.

Think Important Fear Always doubting
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Pride is not the worst of sins. In fact, it's one of the most interesting ones.

Pride Worst Sins Interesting ones
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What we learned quite early on is what was really important to early British pop that we produced-and this is where we were distinct from almost everybody else in this respect-is that it had to reflect exactly what the audience wanted us to say.

Almost Audience British Distinct
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What I took back, because of my exposure to the Jewish music of the 30s and the 40s in my upbringing with my father, was that kind of theatrical songwriting. It was always a part of my character. This desire to make people laugh.

Always Back Because Character
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I trust if your life is right, the right things will happen at the right time. If the chords are in harmony inside, I think other things will happen in the same way. That sounded highfalutin' to me once, but I believe it now.

Trust Your life Happen Right time
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A lot of my audience are in their 50s. But they want me to pretend to continue to be pretending.

Audience Continue Lot Me
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I think I probably would have enjoyed to keep my own private pain out of my work. But I was changed by my audience who said your private pain which you have unwittingly shown us in your early songs is also ours.

Also Audience Changed Early
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I like writing books. I'd rather be at home with my wife. I can write, take a break, come out, have a glass of tea, give my wife a kiss, and go back in and write some more. It's not so bad. I am really lucky.

Writing books At home Wife Glass
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I love acting, especially if it's a fantasy of some kind, where it's not just realistic, it's not naturalism.

Love acting Fantasy Kind Realistic
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Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.

Prejudice Speak Mechanical instincts
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People say I've had a difficult time in life. I think I've had an exciting time in life.

Difficult Difficult Time Exciting Exciting Time
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To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still.

Receive applause Works Demand Power
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To be content with life or to live merrily, rather all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial glance; the more thoughtful we become the more earnest we grow.

Life Required Bestow Superficial glance
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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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Don't always blindly follow guidance and step-by-step instructions; you might run into something interesting.

Blindly follow Guidance Instructions
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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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What I'm trying to do is find either existing properties or come up with properties or angles or stories which will create music drama. It's my obsession and most of all I would like to remain working in theatre. I think it's very much alive.

Alive Angles Come Create
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I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf.

Deaf Hearing Helped Invent
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IM is interesting because you look at your buddy list and, at a glance, see what your friends are listening to, what they're working on, what they're doing. The problem was that you were bound to the computer keyboard.

Because Bound Buddy Computer
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When I grew up, what was interesting for me was that music was color and life was gray. So music for me has always been more than entertainment.

Always Been Color Entertainment
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I was opposed to doing TV for a long time because I thought the quality of writing wasn't very strong, as opposed to film, but there's been a shift in term of the quality of scripts. HBO has attracted a tremendous amount of great writing talent.

Amount Attracted Because Been
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George Martin is an incredible writer.

George Incredible Martin Writer
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The bad part about growing older is I'm going bald. The good part is my nose seems to be getting shorter.

About Bad Bald Getting
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I'm less interested in how people are following each other and more interested in how they are following topics and tweets themselves. People are following more key words and concepts and more ideas and acting on those rather than individuals or organizations.

Acting Concepts Each Following
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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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I just finished participating in a virtual meeting of the Federal Executive Council, the first ever after the last one held on March 18th, 2020. Subsequent meetings were suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Finished Virtual meeting Suspended Pandemic
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My personal view is that another total lockdown would be counterproductive. Before defeating the virus, we must learn to live with it all around us and practice the skills of avoiding it like a landmine. Practice makes perfect. We cannot perfect those skills by locking ourselves up

Personal view Lockdown Counterproductive
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Public officers must always bear in mind the cliche that power is transient. They have limited time to make their modest contributions and bow out for others to continue. No one can annex public office as a personal chattel. That’s why I recoil from the razzmatazz of public office.

Public officers Mind Power Limited time
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Since most viruses that cause pandemics (e.g Ebola, COVID-19) are contracted from animals, why can’t the world invest heavily in isolating these viruses in animals & develop human vaccines for them in anticipation that one day humans might contract the viruses from these animals?

Most viruses Animals World invest
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The anxiety of some members of the public at this time is understandable and so are their criticisms. Matters of life/health should top the agenda of government. Therefore the criticisms must be taken in good faith and government will continue to weigh all of them to respond appropriately.

Anxiety Understandable Criticism Life
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Absolutely! One of the qualities of a good Leader. Always wanting to hear the truth whether it's painful or not.

Absolutely Qualities Wanting Hear
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You can’t fix yourself by breaking someone else. Instead of putting anyone down, inspire them, change their life for the better, make them happy, make them smile, lift their spirit, and see what blessings will come your way.

Fix yourself Breaking someone Inspire them
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I found this so hilarious but I thought - We fear the unknown no matter how helpful it is meant to be .. this is why combating a pandemic without public trust in government and health care delivery and without true community buy in will prove ineffective

Found Hilarious Fear Helpful
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You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
Cannot Destroy Drunk Must
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Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together.

After Bed Day Every
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My stories run up and bite me on the leg - I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish, the idea lets go and runs off.

Bite Down Everything Finish
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You fail only if you stop writing.

Fail Only Stop Writing
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Love is easy, and I love writing. You can't resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you're in love.

Easy Get ILove Idea
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Most people won't realize that writing is a craft. You have to take your apprenticeship in it like anything else.

Anything Anything Else Apprenticeship Craft
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They see us interacting with people, they see us doing serious interviews, they see us having fun, and when you're conversing with someone, you get a much clearer impression of who that person is than if they are just reading into a news piece.

Clearer Doing Fun Get
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That studies have shown that more people are getting up earlier, they're getting their news earlier. They're getting less sleep, getting up at earlier hours.

Earlier Getting Hours Less
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All of my writing is God-given.
God-Given Writing
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I feel like a human pinata. The disappointing thing is, no candy is going to spill out.

Candy Disappointing Feel Going
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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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But, you know, they don't enjoy the dinner hour together. It's just not as much of a ritual at night and it's interesting. I think the ritual is taking place perhaps more in the morning.

Dinner Enjoy Hour I Think
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But of course when people watch morning television, Terry, it's a very different animal. You know, they're running around, they're getting their kids ready for school, they're probably doing eight million things, they're brushing their teeth.

Animal Around Brushing Course
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It's human nature to keep doing something as long as it's pleasurable and you can succeed at it - which is why the world population continues to double every 40 years.

Doing Double Every Human
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