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The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.

Color Conviction Experience Faith
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No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.

Dealing Great Great Things Himself
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I believe musicians have a duty, a responsibility to reach out, to share your love or pain with others.

Believe Duty I Believe Love
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I don't know much about God. But if everything does originate with God, then certainly songs do as well.

About Certainly Does Everything
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If you think my music is sentimental and self-absorbed, I agree with you.

Agree Music Self Absorbed Sentimental
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If you're an addict, it controls your life and your life becomes uncontrollable. It's boring and painful, filling your system with something that makes you stare at your shoes for six hours.

Addict Becomes Boring Controls
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Though 'Fire and Rain' is very personal, for other people it resonates as a sort of commonly held experience... And that's what happens with me. I write things for personal reasons, and then in some cases it... can be a shared experience.

Cases Commonly Experience Fire
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In our music, in our everyday life, there are so many negative things. Why not have something positive and stamp it with blackness?

Blackness Everyday Everyday Life Life
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Connecting with my daughter is the most important thing in my life - the priority. I want to be a man who shows up for her. I want to have such a big influence on her, so that she knows she can call me about anything, which she does.

About Anything Be A Man Big
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If I'm in the studio, I'm completely on music. I try to go to that place and that's the toughest thing for me to do. When I'm with other musicians, sometimes I go back to, almost like, childhood, because that's what I always wanted to be.

Almost Always Back Because
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I try to be as honest and open as I am with everything that I do because it's just, um, It helps me, you know, like whether it's stand up or singing or act. I just try to stay true.

Act Am Because Everything
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With 'Django Unchained,' when you're dealing with slavery, it's like a gymnastics routine with the highest amount of difficulty. Quentin Tarantino is not going to do a movie that's just going to lay there and be safe. There's going to be twists and flips.

Amount Dealing Difficulty Flips
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Stand-up is my heart and now I get a chance to do that and the music altogether. That's going to be great. I'm trying to be the Sammy Davis Jr. of 2005. I'm planning on going out with Cedric the Entertainer because he's got that musical bone, too.

Altogether Because Bone Chance
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I have about 20 to 25 platonic relationships with women all across the board from professional to artistic and they always give little clues on what they like.

About Across Always Artistic
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But don't get caught out there looking goofy. It's weird. When you do something that stinks, it's going to last forever on the Internet. There's always someone in the audience with a camera phone and if you're not 100%, you're going to be watching yourself on YouTube.

Always Audience Camera Caught
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One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.

Always Cannot Laughing Man
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Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.

Being Different Different Things May
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An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done.

Agreeable Always Cares Done
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A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.
Cannot Ease Ill Letter
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Anxiety is part of creativity, the need to get something out, the need to be rid of something or to get in touch with something within.

Anxiety Creativity Need Out
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Fame does lead to money, which I don't have a close relationship with. I'm the kind of guy who never sees the money - it all goes somewhere else. I don't understand it, I don't like to deal with it. I have a fear of not having it, because I grew up without it.

Close Deal Fame Fear
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One of the nice things about acting is that it allows you to open up to the other people within you.

Acting Nice Open People
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Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

Always Attack Cannot Dictated
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There are certain things I learned when I first started learning about acting, to try and place the character physically and emotionally. And the way you place them emotionally is often with humor.

Humor Acting Often Certain
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It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?

Ask Delicacy Flattering Happy
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A good many dramatic situations begin with screaming.
Begin Dramatic Good Many
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If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

Career Chosen Console Inconvenience
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I'm a very brave person. I can go to North Vietnam, I can challenge my government, but I can't challenge the man I'm with if means I'm going to end up alone.

Alone Brave Challenge End
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We shall continue to work for a Middle East that is free of strife and violence, living in harmony without the threat of terrorism or the dangers of weapons of mass destruction.

We shall Work Free Strife
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We are our own biggest enemies, until we learn to treat each other with dignity, Love and respect; outsiders will continue to mistreat us. If you doubt me, just try and mess with the children of mindless wild animals and see if respect eludes you upon survival.

Biggest enemies Treat Dignity Love
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Exactly. But to continuously wine and dine with people who have treated their said friend badly is a RED FLAG for disloyalty. When it happens to you you'd understand

Continuously Wine With people Friend badly
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I'll instinctively know that I identify with a character.

Character Identify Instinctively Know
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Don't inherit your friend's enemies but at the same time I can NEVER be close to any friend that chooses to continuously wine and dine with people who consider me their enemy

Don't inherit Friend's enemies Never Be close
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There's nothing wrong with acknowledging the panoply of life's rich experience.

Life Nothing Rich Wrong
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we can actually create a regional economic integration,without the help of government,all we need to do is to think out of the box.

Create Regional economic Help Government
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Without whining and without making myself a tragic figure, there is no replacement for the loss of your privacy. It's a huge sacrifice.

Figure Huge Loss Privacy
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I love animals and I love working with them because they don't lie.

Lie Working Animals Love
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You can go through life and actually speak your mind and do it in an articulate fashion and with a really intelligent point of view.

Point Intelligent Fashion Articulate
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It's nice because success has allowed me to have a blast on stage, to be in the studio with amazing people, but I find it all a bit bizarre.

Bizarre Amazing Bit Studio
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I always had a penchant for falling in love. Every time I found myself without a mate, I fell into a state of low-sizzling panic.

Always Every Every Time Falling
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Parents are supposed to give the child back to herself with love. If they've got duct tape over their eyes because of narcissism, it doesn't happen.

Back Because Child Eyes
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My childhood was influenced by the roles my father played in his movies. Whether Abraham Lincoln or Tom Joad in the 'Grapes of Wrath,' his characters communicated certain values which I try to carry with me to this day.

Abraham Abraham Lincoln Carry Certain
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I grew up with a deep belief that wherever our troops fought, they were on the side of the angels.
Angels Belief Deep Fought
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I took every chance I could to meet with U.S. soldiers. I talked with them and read the books they gave me about the war. I decided I needed to return to my country and join with them - active duty soldiers and Vietnam Veterans in particular - to try and end the war.

About Active Books Chance
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My studio is a laptop. Everybody I work with is the same. We make computer music, we're the laptop generation.

Computer Everybody Generation Laptop
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For these cultures, getting rid of the pain without addressing the deeper cause would be like shutting off a fire alarm while the fire's still going.

Alarm Cause Cultures Deeper
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You know why we're stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don't let themselves feel things.

Because Black Feel Know
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I often think I can see it in myself and in other young writers, this desperate desire to please coupled with a kind of hostility to the reader.

Coupled Desire Desperate Hostility
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I'm a victim of my own insides. There was a time when I wanted to know everything. It used to make me very unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn't know what to do with it. But now I've learned to make that feeling work for me.

Everything Feeling Just Know
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We're not keen on the idea of the story sharing its valence with the reader. But the reader's own life 'outside' the story changes the story.

Changes Idea Keen Life
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