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Even when other people don’t expect a lot out of you,you have to take the initiative.

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Chris Martin
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: March 2
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Christopher Anthony John Martin
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I think that the fact that a relationship becomes public is a bit of a bummer. Because it can distract from the real reason why you're together, which is that you just like each other.
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I don't speak particularly well. That's one of the consequences of being extremely ugly.
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I have to brush my teeth before I go on stage otherwise I don't feel smart enough.
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The word spirit comes from the Latin word for breath - spiritu - and the origin of the word spirituality has to do with breath and life force, the mysteries of the ancients and all this. The word is very suspect in much of the art world - the Western art world. Certainly, spirituality has become divorced from religious.
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I've either got an acute case of hypochondria or I'm falling apart at the age of twenty-three.
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Anyone who criticises me for talking about fair trade is a few pebbles short of a beach. Because everyone should care about it, just like everyone should care about the environment, because we all live here.
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I don't mind not being cool.
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