Shadowing Practice: david bowie interview 1973 - Learn English Speaking with Video

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What did David Bowie think about David Bowie?
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Well, all right.
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I find that I'm a person who can take on the guises of different people that I meet.
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I can switch accents in seconds of meeting somebody and I can adopt their accent.
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I've always found that I collect.
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I'm a collector.
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And I've always just seemed to collect personalities.
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ideas.
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I have a hodgepodge philosophy which really is very minimal.
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Do you believe in God, for instance?
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What?
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Do you believe in God?
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I believe in an energy form.
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I wouldn't like to put a name to it.
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Do you indulge in any form of worship?
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Life.
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I love life very much indeed.
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You split people down the middle, don't you, a lot?
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That is to say that people are hostile to you or they're totally indifferent.
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Oh, absolutely.
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What kind of reaction do you get from the people who are violently in favour of you?
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I mean, do you get fan mail?
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Yes, a lot.
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Is it scabrous or dangerous or interesting or exciting?
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It's very sexy. In what way?
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Well, I seem to draw a lot of fanfaces out of people.
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A lot of the fan mail I get.
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A lot of it is awfully nice.
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I mean, they say, how's your baby and how's your wife and what's your mum's name and things like that.
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But some of them are worth framing.
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Can you tell us about one or two of the framed ones?
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No, I couldn't really.
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No, they really are quite heavy.
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Heavy-duty letters, they are.
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Heavy-duty?
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Heavy-duty.
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Sorry, do you?
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I drop my tea sometimes.

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