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I got a guitar when I was six and, instead of learning other people's songs, started to try to write my own, even at that young age.

Age Even Got Guitar
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He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible.

Actual Found He His
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I entirely concur in the propriety of resorting to the sense in which the Constitution was accepted and ratified by the nation. In that sense alone it is the legitimate Constitution.

Accepted Alone Concur Constitution
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I gave up drinking once -- it was the worst afternoon of my entire life.

Gave up Drinking Worst Life
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I was born when you kissed me. I died when you left me. I lived a few weeks while you loved me.

Born Kissed me Lived Loved me
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My gosh, I love food. If I wasn’t an actor, I could be a completely different body shape right now.
Love food An actor Different body
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One of the first things I bought when I made 'Roseanne Show' money was a farm in Iowa.

Bought Farm First Iowa
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As a boy, I'd always had an interest in theater. But the idea at my school was that drama and music were to round out the man. It wasn't what one did for a living. I got over that.

A boy Interest Theater Idea
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It dawned on me that acting was what I wanted to do with my life. Nothing had ever touched my heart like acting did.

Acting My life My heart
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You can't break through Hollywood formulaic points of view. I've tried, and I think I was more successful than anybody at doing it.
Anybody Break Doing Hollywood
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I was raised on government cheese. As an adult, in my first marriage, my husband and I worked real hard just to go bankrupt. I happened to write some jokes about it. I did real well for myself.

About Adult Bankrupt Cheese
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Practice good personal hygiene. Wash your hands before you eat. Be aware of good clean water and food sources.
Practice good Personal hygiene Wash Hands
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After my 1985 appearance on 'The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson,' I was wooed by producers in Hollywood, who told me they wanted to turn my act into a sitcom.

Act After Appearance Hollywood
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I always was a writer, but then I wanted to do stand-up because I thought that was a way that I could perform what I wrote.

Always Because Could Perform
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Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.

Progress Right Too long
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The essential and living elements in our architectural activities stem from what was implanted in us during Old Saturn evolution.

Activities Architectural Elements Essential
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The Egyptian was the reverse of a theorist or mere thinker. He wanted to perceive with his senses how the soul took its way from the dead body into higher realms - he wanted to have this constructed before him.

Before Body Constructed Dead
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People used to complain that selling a president was like selling a bar of soap. But when you buy soap, at least you get the soap. In this campaign you just get two guys telling you they really value cleanliness.

Bar Complain Least Value
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In earthly life, a person can conceal whether evil or good is active in his soul. After death, this is no longer possible. The spirit form presents after death the physiognomical expression of what the person was on earth.

Active After Conceal Death
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The hard part about writing about a guy like John Brown is that he was so serious, and his cause was so serious, that most of what's been written about him is really serious and, in my opinion, a little bit boring.

About Been Bit Boring
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James Brown was the Monday-to-Friday guy. He was the hardest man in show business. He was like your dad and your uncle: He showed up, and he hit hard.

Brown Business Dad Guy
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I'm trying to get Americans to see that we're all pretty much the same. I believe it; I was taught God doesn't have a color. I want to better the planet a little bit.

American Believe Better Bit
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Never did a government commence under auspices so favorable, nor ever was success so complete.

Commence Complete Did Ever
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It was by one Union that we achieved our independence and liberties, and by it alone can they be maintained.

Achieved Alone Independence Liberties
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When I was 10, 11, 12 years old, I would pretend to be on the radio. I bought a mixer and these big, ugly headphones and I would literally broadcast the cassette tapes in my bedroom.

Bedroom Big Bought Broadcast
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It's in my blood to be on the radio every day. I've done it since I was 16 years old.
Blood Day Done Every
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I was in chemical jail.

Chemical Was Jail
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I was a functional addict.

Addict A Was Functional
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It is the most delightful thing that ever happens to me, when I hear something coming out of my guitar and out of my mouth that wasn't there before.

Before Coming Delightful Ever
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Sobering up was responsible for breaking up my marriage. That's what it couldn't stand.

Breaking Breaking Up Marriage Responsible
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When I cleaned up some 17 odd years ago, I felt terrible for about six months. The only thing that gave me any real relief was strenuous physical activity.

About Activity Any Cleaned
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Things started to get out of control when I began reading that I was a superstar.

Began Control Get Out
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When I was growing up in Terrell, Texas, I felt that it was not where I was supposed to be. I knew that I was meant for a different destination. I think that the minute I was born, there was something inside telling me where I would go, it's like energy - an intangible destiny.

Born Destination Destiny Different
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Every two, three years there is a movie about the Holocaust because they want you to remember and they want you to be reminded of what it was. When was the last time you seen a movie about slavery?

About Because Every Holocaust
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I never planned to win an Oscar. When I auditioned for 'Ray,' I was just thinking about what a great project it would be.

About Great Just Never
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I've had to be a man since I was 12 or 13. I had a job. And I was playing the piano for people twice my age. Handling responsibility is what makes a man a man.

Age Be A Man Had Handling
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My worst hair experience was when I was trying to relax my hair and my grandmother did it. It went all straight and I looked like a black Bee Gee.

Bee Black Did Experience
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I really wanted to just be a musician. I didn't want to be anything else, but I was funny and all that.

Anything Anything Else Else Funny
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Then I was playing the piano at eight, and that helps you learn about women because most of the people I was playing for were women.

About Because Eight Helps
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I went to college on a classical piano scholarship. My grandmother made me practice one full hour a day. Every day. Man. I thought all she wanted was for me not to have any fun. Next thing you know, you have a career in music. Now, not everybody's going to go on and be Mozart or Michael Jackson. But music makes you smarter.

Any Career Classical College
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From politics, it was an easy step to silence.
Easy Politics Silence Step
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To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.

Certain Dancing Falling Falling In Love
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My entire life has been an attempt to get back to the kind of feelings you have on a field. The sense of brotherhood, the esprit de corps, the focus - there being no past or future, just the ball. As trite as it sounds, I was happiest playing ball.

Future Focus Attempt Sounds
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Sex is great until you die, but it's never as great as it was when you were a kid, when it was a mystery.

Die Great Kid Mystery
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It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.

Before Happens She Sometimes
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For hundreds of years, that was the major form of entertainment: The grown-ups sat around and watched the kids play. Now they sit around and watch the television. The actors are the kids.

Actor Around Form Major
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My mother killed herself when I was 12. I won't complete that relationship. But I can try to understand her.

Complete Her Herself I Can
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I was raised in the '50s. I was taught by my father that how I looked was all that mattered, frankly.

Father Frankly How I Was Raised
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All my life I had believed that unless I was perfect I would not be loved.
All My Life Believed Had Life
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Teach a child English, French, German, etc, that's very good. No knowledge is ever a waste. But flogging a child for speaking his or her own language is totally unacceptable. Teach them to appreciate their own. Don't treat them like wild animals for speaking their language.

Teach A child Very good Knowledge
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