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I have been seriously afraid at times but have used my fear as a stimulating factor rather than allowing it to paralyse me. My abilities have not been outstanding, but I have had sufficient strength and determination to meet my challenges and have usually managed to succeed with them.

I have begun writing what I have said I'd never write, a memoir ("I am not my own subject," I used to say with icy superiority).

I have been through various fitness regimes. I used to run about five miles a day and I did aerobics for a while.

I have endured a great deal of ridicule without much malice; and have received a great deal of kindness, not quite free from ridicule. I am used to it.

I have gotten so used to melancholia that I greet it like an old friend.

I have grown more forgiving. I accept that not everything is for me. I'm not as in love with my own opinions as I used to be. And anger is not something that comes to me as quickly as it once did.

I have had a very singular kind of life since I started working so young, so I am very used to traveling, working, taking time for myself.

I have never considered myself a prodigy. Others have used that term, but I never bought in to it.

I have never used steroids. Period.

I have never intentionally used steroids. Never. Ever. Period.

I have never used steroids. Never.

I have never lost my temper. I let out my venom in my writing if I have to, but person-to-person, I have never lost my temper, never used abusive language.

I haven`t used that word since I was 7 years old. I don`t understand Donald Trump.

I have set up several businesses as social businesses, and I am a great believer that the power of business should be used for good.

I have relaxed into my persona as an author, although I used to fight that.

I have used mass surveillance to target people, so I do know how it works.

I have used, you know, marijuana ... since Ive been in the league.

I have used cannabis all over the world.

I helped found Artists for New South Africa, but it used to be called Artists for Free South Africa. Alfre Woodard and a bunch of us started this.

I just had to find all my friends that used to be in the business. As I say, the music business didn't die, it just moved to Nashville.

I just used to have a really normal life, working in an office.

I knew Mac pretty well. I'd used them when I was younger.

I knew once a very covetous, sordid fellow [perhaps William Lowndes], who used to say, `Take care of the pence, for the pounds will take care of themselves.

I know a lot of athletes and models are written off as just bodies. I never felt used for my body.

I know great songwriters. Fred Neil would come up when he was in L.A., we all used to hang out. He would sit there and sing, and we would just melt. I mean, we would go to his recording sessions.

I know Camberwell very well: I used to go to Camberwell New Baths a lot and the cinema, which used to be the Odeon. My old school is around there too, though you've got to understand that I went to a lot of schools.

I know I'm not going to write as well as I used to. I no longer have the stamina to endure the frustration. Writing is frustration - it's daily frustration, not to mention humiliation.

I know some actresses who used to be older than me who are now younger than me - I don't know how they do it.

I like to read my diary occasionally to remind myself what a miserable, alienated old sod I used to be.

I know you'll never love me like you used to.

I learned up less is more.The makeup used to wear me and now I wear the makeup.

I like organizing things. I like organizing my closets, so that I know where everything is. And and I used to color code it.

I like to watch comedies; the most dramatic that I used to get was 'Forrest Gump.'

I listen to music all the time, and I just choose things I like, or things that I've not used before. Sometimes I work with music that's very difficult - that I don't even particularly like, per se, but that is really complex or interesting.

I like actors - I used to be one.

I like necklaces that are short, the way skateboarders used to wear them in the seventies.

I lived in an attached house. My father used to drive into the wrong driveway all the time. He'd say, Damn it, how do you tell one of these houses from another?

Illnesses have always been used as metaphors to enliven charges that a society was corrupt or unjust.

I'll take the shooting. I'm used to that. I've been shot a few times in the past, and I guess I can stand it, again.

I'll buy metaphor, but simile's a cop-out used by scaredycats who won't commit to anything. Simile's for cowards.

I loved the old stories in National Lampoon, like the original story the movie Vacation was based on. I used to laugh at them until I cried.

I lose things all the time. I used to lose my license all the time before I put a place in my car for it.

I loved moustaches. I used to draw myself with one. When I was 14, I was really into war and Van Gogh.

I love bikes. I used to own one, but I fell off it when I was younger and that was the end of my bike riding days until now.

I loved Japan. I used to read a lot about it when I was a child. And I always wanted to go. And it was delightful. I absolutely loved it. What a smashing place.

I love Les Beaux Peeps. Everyone in that band works together really well. I used to go out to see bands a lot; now it seems there just aren't any I like.

I love school, but when I was going to school, I sort of used it as an opportunity to figure out what I love to do.

I love to bring a bowl or basket filled with clementines that can be used as an easy centerpiece and enjoyed after the party.

I love the 80s. I always used to watch that VH1 show, 'I Love the 80s,' nonstop. I love the 80s, everything about it, the clothes, the music. Especially the music. The music is so happy. It's great.

I love watching the romantic comedies of the late '50s and early '60s. I used to have a rule that if Tony Randall's in it, it can't be bad.