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A good song has to have a great melody, and the lyrics have to touch my heart. Now, if it's just a little toe-tapper, got to make me feel good somehow or another, or when I sing it I can't make you feel good.

Another Feel FeelGood Good
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When I got into the music business in 1976, there weren't many women on the roster. As a woman, you don't complain; you work twice as hard, and you do your job.

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I grew up in a time when people believed in duty, honor and country. My grandfathers were both officers. My father was a General in the Air Force. My brother and I were both in the Army. I've always felt a kinship with soldiers; I think it's possible to support the warrior and be against the war.

Against Air Air Force Always
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It's hard for children's authors to be accepted when they try to write adult books. J.K. Rowling is the exception because people are so eager to read anything by her, but it took Judy Blume three or four tries before she had a success.

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I used to get a haircut every Saturday so I would never miss any of the comic books. I had practically no hair when I was a kid!

Any Books Comic ComicBooks
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I've been writing songs since I was a little boy. You know, I think I wrote my first song when I was 11.

Been Boy First I Think
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I met Quincy Jones in Seattle. We were kids together... liked each other when we met and have been close ever since. He wasn't writing when we met - in fact, I more or less started him off to write; voicing, harmony, and stuff like that.

Been Close Each Ever
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Any artist, when he goes in to record, should have the feeling that any song he records can be a hit. This may sound egotistical, but it makes sense.

Any Artist Egotistical Feeling
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The one thing I regret is missing the time with my older children when they were young.

Children Missing Older One Thing
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When I was thirty, and a long time after that, I felt like I had to leave home to do what I had to do. Now, it's just the opposite.

After Felt Had Home
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I always had to wait until something hit me, and I could write it. But when I would cut an album, to me it represented the time that I spent since the last one. Just the way I was looking at the world.

Album Always Could Cut
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When I wrote 'Help Me Make It Through the Night,' I was on an oil platform out in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico and was just thinking of myself.

Gulf Help Just Make
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When I was stationed in Germany, Johnny Cash was already a legend over there because he'd done some shows, then gone off to some bar straight afterwards and played just for the troops. So he was a real hero.

Afterwards Bar Because Cash
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You've got to find ways to breathe while you're dancing so that when it comes time for you to stop and sing again, you have it. To prepare, I do a lot of aerobic activity. Many times at the gym, people will look at me because I'll be on the treadmill humming.

Activity Aerobic Again Because
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Well, when I was 13, for my bar mitzvah I received my first typewriter. And that was special.

Bar BarMitzvah First Mitzvah
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When I was a kid, there were these great comic books called 'Tales From The Crypt' and 'The Vault of Horror.' They were gruesome. I discovered them in the barbershop and thought they were fabulous.

Books Comic ComicBooks Discovered
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When I write, I try to think back to what I was afraid of or what was scary to me, and try to put those feelings into books.
Afraid Back Books Feelings
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I got the chance to do things that I dreamed of when I was a kid: I got to travel around the world; I had my own 'Goosebumps' attraction at Disney World; I've been on TV and had three TV series.

Around Attraction Been Chance
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Exercise? I get it on the golf course. When I see my friends collapse, I run for the paramedics.

Collapse Course Exercise Friends
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When I write for kids, I have to make sure they know what can't happen. They have to know it's a fantasy. But when I write for adults, they have to think it's real. Every detail has to be real or they won't buy it.

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I started writing when I was 9 years old. I was like this weird kid who would just stay in my room, typing little funny magazines and drawing comic strips.

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I set a goal for myself everyday when I write - 10 pages a day - and it's much harder because I'm too dumb to turn off my Twitter and everything so it's always on and it's a real distraction. It's a major distraction.

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Believe it or not, my introduction to scary literature was 'Pinocchio.' My mother read it to me every day before naptime when I was three or four. The original 'Pinocchio' is terrifying.

Before Believe Day Every
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Like everybody else, when I don't know what else to do, I seem to go in for catching colds.

Like everybody Seem Catching colds
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Whenever a man encounters a woman in a mood he doesn't understand, he wants to know if she's tired.

Man Woman Mood Understand
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Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.

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Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.
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Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.
Footing Laugh Lose Man
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Marriages don't last. When I meet a guy, the first question I ask myself is: is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?

Ask Children First Guy
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The word 'aerobics' came about when the gym instructors got together and said: If we're going to charge $10 an hour, we can't call it Jumping up and down.

About Aerobic Call Came
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When Shakespeare was writing, he wasn't writing for stuff to lie on the page; it was supposed to get up and move around.

Around Get He Lie
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When we first broke into that forbidden box in the other dimension, we knew we had discovered something as surprising and powerful as the New World when Columbus came stumbling onto it.

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When you're around the whole Dead scene, they're there as a tribal thing; they're there as part of a rendezvous and a pow-wow.

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I started playing ball when I was a kid. My dad was a pro ball player and he passed on his knowledge to me.

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I played professional level sports. When you're playing for money, it's a whole other level.

Level Money Other Played
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When I was working on my career, I was very aware of what I had done, what I wanted to do next. I'm having a good time just reading things that might be interesting to do.

Aware Career Done Good
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I want to help you to grow as beautiful as God meant you to be when He thought of you first.

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I was brought up by two people who just said, Whatever it is you're interested in, go do it. There is no winning or losing. You find out when you do it what the experience is.

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I got a kick out of the stands when they would heckle me. I would take the energy from that.

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When you think you're good, you will play at that level. If you doubt yourself, you will play like crap.

Crap Doubt Good Level
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When you first are in front of the camera as a young person, you'd be surprised at all the insecurities you can get.

Camera First Front Get
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All my playmates on the farm were black, and later, when I started school in Plains, it was all white. But I was always eager to get back home to my friends in Archery.

Always Archery Back Black
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When you single out any particular group of people for secondary citizenship status, that's a violation of basic human rights.

Any Basic Basic Human Rights Citizenship
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When I look at the faces of children, I see endless possibilities. All they need is a little help, a little hope, a little love, and someone who believes in them. God bless the child.

Look Face Children Endless possibilities
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There's no doubt that the Christian right has gone to bed with the more conservative elements of the Republican Party. And there's been a melding in their goals when it comes to the separation of church and state. I've always believed in the separation of church and state.

Always Bed Been Believed
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I wish I had known when I was in the White House what I know now about the Third World.
About Had House I Wish
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When I was in the White House, I was confronted with the challenge of the Cold War. Both the Soviet Union and I had 30,000 nuclear weapons that could destroy the entire earth and I had to maintain the peace.

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When I was elected President nobody asked me to negotiate between Israel and Egypt. It was not even a question raised in my campaign. But I felt that one of the reasons that I was elected President was to try to bring peace to the Holy Land.

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When you invest in science and begin to develop your own vaccines and dictate the pace, those "racists" will stop disrespecting you and think that your only contribution is to be used as guinea pigs.

Invest Science Racist Vaccines
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It really wasn't until I was in college when I began to write more and more, and I realized I was scheduling my entire life around my writing.

Around Began College Entire
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