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My brother says that I was writing songs about fate while he was off playing soccer. Now I tell him he's 33 and being a professional while I'm playing soccer with my friends. Ha!

If I fancy a girl, I'll tell her. I'll say: 'You're fit.'

I still sweat bullets if I go on The Tonight Show, but I tell myself, You can either have fun tonight or you can be shy and miserable. You ask my friends or anyone I work with now - nobody would say I was shy.

It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.

All these non-singing, non-dancing, wish-I-had-me-some-clothes fools who tell me my albums suck. Why should I pay any attention to them?

Comedians work great as actors because they're good under pressure. With a lot of actors, you have to make them feel like everything's going really well to get a good performance out of them. But, if you have a comedian on the set, you can tell them, 'Hey, you really are screwing this up,' and then they just get better.

I think it's because it's so different and it takes risks. Plus, it's really smart humor. It gives the audience credit in terms of not needing to tell them when to laugh. I love that about the show. There's no laugh track.

You know, I think what the American people want more than anything else right now is someone who's just going to look them in the eye and tell them the truth, even some truths that they don't like. And - but they have to believe the person's speaking from their heart and are authentic.

Tell me and I forget. Show me and I remember. Involve me and I understand.

This is my truth, tell me yours.

Talk about divine intervention. I can't even tell you how blessed I feel.

I want to tell a story and shape it all the way through to the end.

Somebody help me, tell me where to go from here cause even Thugs cry, but do the Lord care?

When you lose, you're more motivated. When you win, you fail to see your mistakes and probably no one can tell you anything.

Especially when I first really started to work with Kenneth and Franklin, who had been in space already. And so, they were able to talk about space and tell me a few things about how things would really happen.

I guess I thought I was Elvis Presley but I'll tell ya something. All Elvis did was stand on a stage and play a guitar. He never fell off on that pavement at no 80 mph.

I'm not really a storyteller myself - I tend to get all tangled up when I try and tell stories.

You had to feel the swell change. You had to go with the change. He told me that. No eye is on the sparrow but he did tell me that.

I don't operate on smokers. I tell cigarette smokers that I can operate on you, I get paid the same. And you might even do well. But it's the wrong thing to do. So I refuse to operate on you until you stop smoking.

Police in China can do whatever they want; after 81 days in arbitrary detention you clearly realise that they don't have to obey their own laws. In a society like this there is no negotiation, no discussion, except to tell you that power can crush you any time they want - not only you, your whole family and all people like you.

I'm 19, and, being a public figure, I'm supposed to present myself in a certain way, but it's hard and you're never going to be able to tell people who you are through the media.

Richard Burton rang me up once and said, Do you know you're my only leading lady I've never slept with? I said, Well, please don't tell everybody, it's the worst image.

Tell mother, tell mother, I died for my country... useless... useless.

Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.

One of the pleasures of being a Jew, I don't have to tell you, it allows you anti-Semitism.

Sometimes I've gotten photographs back and people have literally shaven off pieces of me, and I tell them to put it back.

Everything runs its course. We had told a lot of stories that happened in our life. My kid was getting older, and we were running out of stories to tell.

Twenty years on, the books are still fun to write and I've still got lots of stories I want to tell, mainly about social injustice and people chewed up by the system.

It takes more drawing to tell a story in pantomime.

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.