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I was singing a lot of waltzes. And I was with Jerry Kennedy, my producer, and he was playing me some songs, and he said, hey, I want to play you this song that I'm going to get Jackie Ward to record.

Get Going He Hey
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Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.
Great art Music Loveliness
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An actor without a playwright is like a hole without a doughnut.

An actor Playwright Hole
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It's very important to surround yourself with people you can learn from.

Important Learn People Surround
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The biggest challenge in my life is getting all these kids raised. I've helped with nieces, stepchildren and my own son, so the biggest challenge is making sure the kids are raised and finding enough quality time with them.

Biggest BiggestChallenge Challenge Enough
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I don't think quantity time is as special as quality time with your family.

Family Quality QualityTime Quantity
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I love to sing with different people.

Different DifferentPeople ILove Love
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I totally love to act. I don't care if it's a musical, a comedy. I just like to work and interact with other people.
Act Care Comedy Don'tCare
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I exercise at least five times a week with stretching, Pilates, push-ups, planks, sit- ups, squats and light weights.

Exercise Five Least Light
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I came to realize I did believe in God. I couldn't conceive of a universe without someone overseeing it in a compassionate way.

Believe Came Compassionate Conceive
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I am very into lyrics. I start with what the words are saying, what the storyline is saying, like a good script. It should really capture me, do something for me. If I don't get it, it's not going to move people, and if it's not going to move people, it's not going to happen.
Am Capture Get Going
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You don't paddle against the current, you paddle with it. And if you get good at it, you throw away the oars.

Against Away Current Get
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So much about religion has to do with rigid, sacrosanct preciousness. I don't live my life that way, and I don't feel that's what Baha'u'llah teaches.

About Feel Life Live
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Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end.

Cause End Heart In The End
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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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I'm a firm believer in God himself, but that's as far as I can go. I'm not any denomination. I'm not Catholic or Presbyterian or Baptist or Methodist or Jewish or Muslim. I'm none of those things. And I'm sure that's just fine with God.

Any As Far As Baptist Believer
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I think I'm a much better father as an older man than I was with my first kids. Occasionally, I have to yell at the little guys, but they don't take me seriously. 'Listen to the old guy,' they say. 'Isn't he great? He's mad.'

Better Father First Great
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I have no regrets. I feel very grateful for the life that I had - you know, family I live with; and I've been doing work that I love, ever since I came to Nashville.

Been Came Doing Ever
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I've had a life of all kinds of experiences - most of them good. And I've got eight kids and a wife that puts up with everything I do and keeps me out of trouble.

Eight Everything Experiences Good
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I had a list of rules I made up one time. It says: Tell the truth, sing with passion, work with laughter, and love with heart. Those are good to start with, anyway.

Anyway Good Had Heart
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I don't know about other writers, but for myself, to write I must be relatively quiet - it's very difficult to write with the telephone and the doorbell ringing and conversation going on; I'm not that good a writer to write through all that!

About Conversation Difficult Going
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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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What really makes me happy now is my home. I know that I have that to lose. But I don't see losing it. And I don't care if I never do another movie. And I don't care if I never get back on the road. I like to think that I'm gonna do that. But if I don't, I can live with that.

Another Back Care Don't Care
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I don't understand what the big deal is with gay marriage. Get over it, people.

Big Big Deal Deal Gay
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There's a difference between making fun of something and having fun with something.
Between Difference Fun Having
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We've seen that there are a lot of people out there - teenagers in Topeka, housewives in Long Island, millionaire Internet start-up moguls - that all want to connect with each other about what it is to be human.

About Connect Each Housewives
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I was on the cheerleading squad and drama and the choir, but I was friends with everybody. I was not a partier. I was too Type A and crazy about my grades, but I was still there at everything.

About Choir Crazy Drama
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Congress: Bingo with billions.

Billions Bingo Congress
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Twitter is fun because it lets me stay in touch with all my original readers who grew up with my books. I love hearing from readers instantly on Twitter.

Because Books Fun Grew
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I'm obsessed with radio. It's a good start to Sunday morning.

Good Morning Obsessed Radio
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I think that charity is a tricky thing, because a lot of times, people equate charity with handouts. I don't believe in handouts.

Because Believe Charity Equate
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It's my job, too, to keep up with pop culture and what the kids are into 'cause you don't want to sound like an old man trying to write for kids. I spend a lot of my time spying on them.

Cause Culture Job Keep
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So many people in their 20s and 30s, on Twitter, say 'Please write something for us,' so I have to listen to them, they're my audience.

Audience Listen Many People
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I read everywhere. I read every day. I read on the couch with my dog in the afternoon and at night. I try to read at least two to three hours a day. I read only fiction.

Afternoon Couch Day Dog
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I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.

Clown Fine Know Like
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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.

Always Because Day Distraction
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The dramatic critic who is without prejudice is on the plane with the general who does not believe in taking human life.

Dramatic critic Prejudice Believe Human life
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There is something distinguished about even his failures; they sink not trivially, but with a certain air of majesty, like a great ship, its flags flying, full of holes.

Distinguished Failure Trivially Flag
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A man's wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart.

Wife Compromise Illusion Sweetheart
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Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.

Art Entertainment Married Moral
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If we will but let our God and Father work His will with us, there can be no limit to His enlargement of our existence

God Father work Limit Enlargement
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As a woman, I find it very embarrassing to be in a meeting and realize I'm the only one in the room with balls.

Balls Embarrassing Find Meeting
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Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.

Entertainment Moral Passion Propaganda
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And her life will perhaps be the richer, for holding now within it the memory of what came, but could not stay

Life Richer Holding Memory
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Her face was fair and pretty, with eyes like two bits of night sky, each with a star dissolved in the blue.

Her face Pretty Eyes Night sky
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Annihilation itself is no death to evil. Only good where evil was, is evil dead. An evil thing must live with its evil until it chooses to be good. That alone is the slaying of evil.

Annihilation Death Good Dead
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To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Love Plays Power Revolution
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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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Listen, wait, and be patient. Every shaman knows you have to deal with the fire that's in your audience's eye.

Audience Be Patient Deal Every
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The truth doesn't have to do with cruelty, the truth has to do with mercy.
Cruelty Mercy Truth With
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