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Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said.

Better Easier More People
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For me, hipsterism is for one to appropriate the codes of a social class or another milieu that wasn't theirs originally, in order to define their personality through something different and unique. Which is why a lot of hipsters live downtown, and they're dressed as farmers. Then you have the Oscar Wilde hipster: the dandy.

Hipsterism Codes Social Originality
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I was a very violent kid. I think movies and writing and art have been a way of channeling this.
Violent Writing Art
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When Jesus looked down from the cross, he didn't think “I am giving myself to you because you are so attractive to me.” No, he was in agony, and he looked down at us - denying him, abandoning him, and betraying him - and in the greatest act of love in history, he STAYED. He said, “Father, forgive them, they don't know what they are doing.” He loved us, not because we were lovely to him, but to make us lovely.

Jesus Cross Myself Loved
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I was born in ancient times, at the end of the world, in a patriarchal Catholic and conservative family. No wonder that by age five I was a raging feminist - although the term had not reached Chile yet, so nobody knew what the heck was wrong with me.

Ancient times World Patriarchal Catholic
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Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn't that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.

Around Enjoy Envy Eyes
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Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experience, but that's not where I live.

Always Experience Fame Fickle
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I'm not a greedy man; there really is nothing I couldn't live without. But if there was a fire, and I saved my child and my pets, I'd be happy.

Be Happy Child Fire Greedy
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I was never ignorant, as far as being experienced in classrooms and learning about different subjects and actually soaking it up, so I checked into college for a little bit. I took classes at a community college in West L.A. I took psychology, English, and philosophy.

Ignorant Learning Subject Psychology
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I kinda grew up in different places. I was just from everywhere.
Different Different Places Everywhere Grew
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I never thought about college, but my mom thought about it for me. I knew 100 percent it wasn't for me.

About College Knew Me
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My school had a radio show, and when I first decided to become a rapper, I was on there, and I would, like, freestyle.

Become Decided First Freestyle
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My musical career was an accident.

Accident An Career Musical
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I played, like, a year of piano until I learned the 'Pink Panther' theme. That was my goal. Once I was good enough, I quit. Now my music has to have some rock.

Enough Goal Good I Quit
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From the beginning of my rap career, since I was seen and heard, I always had a store.

Rap Career Store
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The movie Spinal Tap rocked my world. It's for rock what The Sound of Music was for hills. They really nailed how dumb rock can be.

Dumb Hills How Movie
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When I was a kid, I thought I was the strongest man in the world. Then, the fastest runner and then the smartest person in the world. One by one my delusions got shut down. Now I just see myself as the lamest guy in the world.

Delusions Down Fastest Got
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I just remember the early days of Tenacious D. There was no talk or thought about doing a TV show or a movie.

About Days Doing Early
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In the past when I was in Hollywood, I was like a dog. I felt humiliated. My English was not good. People would even ask me 'Jackie Who?'.

Ask Dog English Even
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No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they're pretty, even if they aren't.

Even Ever Girl Little
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There was my name up in lights. I said, 'God, somebody's made a mistake.' But there it was, in lights. And I sat there and said, 'Remember, you're not a star.' Yet there it was up in lights.

God Lights Made Mistake
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I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.

Anyone AnyoneElse Anything Beautiful
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I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle.

Am Belonging Demanded Few
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His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was always in the right.

Nice Always Life Faith
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Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.

Peace More Important Than
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I was brought up differently than the average American child because the average child is brought up expecting to be happy.

American Average AverageAmerican BeHappy
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When I was five I think, that's when I started wanting to be an actress.
Actress Five IThink Started
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I started imagining this whole different world. It was a society of musicians, a family I hoped I could belong to one day.

Belong Could Day Different
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I'd been in love before - I was always in love.

Always Been Before Love
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I was the most subtle person in the world.

Most Person Subtle World
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It was beautiful and it was hell at the same time but it showed me all the lessons I needed to learn to face the world.

Beautiful Time Lessons Needed
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Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.

AllThings First Gold Labour
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Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash.

Ideas Book Essence Great
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Labor was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things.

AllThings First Labor Money
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I never had a speech from my father 'this is what you must do or shouldn't do' but I just learned to be led by example. My father wasn't perfect.

Example Father Had Just
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After every war, there was a significant change in the music, and I can understand how that happened. If you participate in protecting the country, you think you can be part of it, but you come back home and it's worse than ever.

After Back Change Come
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Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.

Associated Once Past Smell
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Happy is the novelist who manages to preserve an actual love letter that he received when he was young within a work of fiction, embedded in it like a clean bullet in flabby flesh and quite secure there, among spurious lives.

Flesh Love Actual Letter
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I was surrounded by sisters. My childhood was all women.

All Women Childhood Sisters Surrounded
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When I was young I didn't care about education, just money and box office.

About Box Care Education
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Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.

Against Any Born Conspiracy
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When I got into this, I never thought about reviews. I never thought about what people would say about me, I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor, and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.

About Actor Become Comedian
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Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.

Did Else Exactly Like
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Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.

Could Destroy Failed Hated
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When I was younger and did a stand-up gig, it would take me two weeks to recover. Sometimes I'd get so panicked that I would stutter.

Did Get Gig Me
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I knew it was time to get off of reality TV when someone asked me if I sang as well as acted.

Acted Asked Get Knew
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The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did - which was to hide.

Did End Failure Hide
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To be honest with you, when I got into this I never thought about reviews. I never thought about what people would say about me. I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.

About Actor Become Comedian
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It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.

Alive Been Books Connected
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I mean, I look at my dad. He was twenty when he started having a family, and he was always the coolest dad. He did everything for his kids, and he never made us feel like he was pressured. I know that it must be a great feeling to be a guy like that.

Always Coolest Dad Did
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