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I talked to the players and tried to make them aware of what was good and bad, but I didn't try to run their lives.

Aware Bad Good Good And Bad
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I'm not going to say I was opposed to the Vietnam War. I'm going to say I'm opposed to war. But I'm also opposed to protests that deny other people their rights.

Also Deny Going Opposed
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If there's anything you could point out where I was a little different, it was the fact that I never mentioned winning.

Anything Could Different Fact
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I was built up from my dad more than anyone else.

Anyone Anyone Else Built Dad
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With one man, there was a freedom and liberation. That was with Michael Hutchence, my partner in life.

With One Man There
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The moment my doctor told me, I went silent. My mum and dad were with me, then we all went to pieces. I was saying, No, I've got my flight to Sydney in two hours. I'm getting on a plane.

The Moment Doctor Told
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When I was eight, my pals and I went up to my bedroom, put on our party frocks and mimed to ABBA records using broom handles as microphones.

When Eight Was Eight
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The idea behind the Anti Tour was people asking me how I would top the 'Aphrodite' tour... I thought the best option was to go completely the other way.

The Idea Behind Anti
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Funnily enough, when I was leaving school and they asked you what you were going to do, and I just liked acting, that's never what I would say. I would always say I would go into business, even though I didn't really know what was meant by that.

Funnily Enough When Was
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When I was younger, my grandma taught me how to cut patterns and sew.

When I Was Younger
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When I started, there was something almost romantic about the notion of paparazzi. I mean, it wasn't. They were still chasing you down the road.

When Started There Was
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Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as it was yesterday when you and I laid wreaths at the Garden of Remembrance.

Castle Dublin Garden Here
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When I was about five or seven years old my mother was placed in a mental institution and so we were with our father who worked very hard, and we had to figure a lot of things out.

About Father Figure Five
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When I was 14, I was a passenger in a terrible accident.
Accident Passenger Terrible
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The climate in the '50s and '60s for black performers or black people in the entertainment business was atrocious. It was atrocious.

Atrocious Black Business Climate
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I grew up in a society with a very ancient and strong oral storytelling tradition. I was told stories, as a child, by my grandmother, and my father as well.

Ancient Child Father Grandmother
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Kabul was very popular with the hippies in the Sixties and Seventies. It was very quiet and peaceful.

Hippies Peaceful Popular Quiet
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I was good at being a doctor; my patients liked me. At times people trust you with things they wouldn't tell their spouses. It was a real privilege.

Being Doctor Good Liked
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The difficulty of writing a second novel is directly proportional to how successful the first novel was, it seems.

Difficulty Directly First How
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All stories I write are compulsive. Anything I've ever written was because I don't have a choice. I write stories because I can't wait to tell it, I can't wait to see how it ends.

Anything Because Choice Compulsive
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I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces of wood.

Group Guy Member Nailed
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Write the story you need to tell and want to read. It's impossible to know what others want, so don't waste time trying to guess.

Guess Impossible Know Need
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I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me - they're cramming for their final exam.
About Bible Dawned Exam
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I'm an OG. I was an OG when I was 16. I was an OG when I made the decision I don't want to go to school anymore and start skipping to make music.

Anymore Decision Go Made
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I feel like it's important for me to expand, to create my own label. With a label, I can just give someone the opportunity that I was given, you know? That's what it's all about, just helping.

About Create Expand Feel
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I was the first to wear colored skinny jeans.

Colored First Jeans Skinny
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Where I am from, people are into designer brands, but not, like, the cool ones, just like any designer brand, and I wasn't that type.

Am Any Brand Brands
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If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul.

Before Grandfather Had He
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God doesn't love me any more or less because I had some work done on my face. You know, I prayed about it a long, long, long, long, long time, because there again, I wouldn't want to do anything that I felt was going to be offensive to God.

About Again Any Anything
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Do you know something? The minute that blood sacrifice was accepted, Jesus was the first human being that was ever born again. Now that was real - it happened when he was in Hell.

Accepted Again Being Blood
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Peace is one of the most precious gifts God has promised His children. I know, because for many years my life was not peaceful, and I was miserable.

Because Children Gifts God
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I have learned from personal experience that putting trust in God means there will be some unanswered questions. That was a hard lesson for me because I naturally want to understand everything... to know what's going on so I can feel like I'm in control.

Because Control Everything Experience
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I didn't want to go out and change anything. I just wanted to make the music that was part of my background, which was rock and blues and hip-hop.

Anything Background Blues Change
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I dated all these girls and ended up not liking them and thought to myself, 'What was it that all of them had in common?' They had too much time on their hands. Even though they were pretty, they lacked something. A woman could be less attractive but with ambition and drive, that's the most beautiful thing.

Ambition Attractive Beautiful Common
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I worked at a hot dog place, a bagel place, the Jersey Store and the hottest fashion joint around. I was getting too famous to work there anymore. I was almost showing up as a joke. I made $2,000 on my show the previous night and I'm going to go shopping during my five-hour shift.

Famous Hot Joke Fashion
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I'm very proud of my Nigerian heritage. I wasn't fortunate enough to be raised in a heavy Nigerian environment, because my parents were always working. My father was with D.C. Cabs and my mother worked in fast food and was a nurse.

Proud Heavy Fast Enough
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We were in San Francisco for a long weekend. And we turned on the TV to check the weather and there was our Spray 'n Wash commercial! It felt like we were at home.

Weekend TV Weather Spray
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Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.

Act Always Life Matter
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in the press, my sex life was something else again. I was Lady Bountiful of the Sheets. Some of the best fiction of the Sixties was written about my amorous adventures with an assortment of lovers who could have only been chosen by a berserk random sampler.

Press Sex life Lady Bountiful Sheets
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I'm not going to go around with a long face - that's a waste of time

Going Around Long face Time
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I dated a lot, but I never really had anyone who was worthy of an anniversary. And most girlfriends never made it to a year, anyway.

Worthy Dated Lot Anniversary
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I hope everybody thinks they've got the best album. I wouldn't have put mine out if I didn't think it was the best.

Album Mine Best Hope
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The happiest times in my life were the days when I was traveling with Les Brown and his band.
Happiest Life Traveling
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Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money's not related to happiness.

Always Because Course Great
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I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don't hurt me, because it is me. If it was not me, if I was pretending to be someone else, then this could unbalance my world, but I know who I am.

Am Because Could Critics
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He also said we should carve in the year and place where I was born, but I said no. As a man dies many times before he's dead, so does he wend from birth to birth until, by grace, he comes alive at last.

Carve Place Grace Born
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What's lost is nothing to what's found, and all the death that ever was, set next to life, would scarcely fill a cup.

Found Death Life Scarcely
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What keeps the wild hope of Christmas alive year after year in a world notorious for dashing all hopes is the haunting dream that the child who was born that day may yet be born again even in us.

Wild Hope Christmas World
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I always looked up to so many people before me and was lucky to become such good friends with them. I learned so much hanging out with those cats.

Always Become Before Cats
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What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.

Anyone Anyone Else Been Could
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