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When I'm living in the world of luxury and celebrity, which is where I found myself for a large part of my life, it's a walk-on part. Not a vital necessity, like it is for so many people. I enjoy it but I can see right through it!.
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When I'm not writing, I do a lot of research reading on the shape of civilization. Fiction can be a lot of different things... but I feel like it's my job to write about the way things are.
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When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
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When it comes to partnership, some humans can make their lives alone - it's possible. But creatively, it's more like painting: you can't just use the same colours in every painting. It's just not an option. You can't take the same photograph every time and live with art forms with no differences.
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When like-minded people, talking mostly with one another, end up thinking a more extreme version of what they thought before they started to talk... If you put a bunch of rebels in a room and ask them to discuss rebellion, they'll get more extreme.
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When lying, be emphatic and indignant, thus behaving like your children.
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When Marcus Garvey spoke about self-reliance, he wasn't only talking about people of colour. It's like self-reliance in general, for anyone. Just keep moving and moving within the right direction, and everything will be all right.
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When meditation is mastered, the mind is unwavering like the flame of a lamp in a windless place.
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When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.
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When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes.
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When my bed is empty, Makes me feel awful mean and blue. My springs are getting rusty, Living single like I do.
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When people are like each other they tend to like each other.
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When people come and see my show, I try to infuse into them that they can walk away feeling like their lives are a victory.
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When people shake their heads because we are living in a restless age, ask them how they would like to life in a stationary one, and do without change
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When people tell you they saw your last picture - well, the way they say it sounds like they hope it was.
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When reality television really hit, I just had a backlash towards reality. It seemed like a cheap way to make a product. And then when music reality and 'Idol hit,' I just didn't watch it, it seemed novelty. And of course the story of 'Idol,' this is one of the greatest stories in television history.
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When somebody was looking in my locker, it was like going in my desk. Somebody happened to be looking in my locker when they shouldn't have been.
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When strangers start acting like neighbors... communities are reinvigorated.
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When there's a terrible illness like AIDS sweeping through, you help people.
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When things have gone really wrong in my life, I've cried like a child. I have really, really cried. I cry it out. Two-three days I cry, and then I'm like, enough, time to deal with reality and figure a way out. This is the way I have dealt with everything.
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