His self-pity is not deep enough to wipe out his inspiration for writing and singing, though.

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But Reagan never played on his lowly roots for pity.

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That's definitely his credit, a pity for me.

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Pity for him, I don't think he played his best.

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But there is still something unsettling about Mr Adams's unusual hints of resignation, his references to physical and emotional exhaustion, and the self-pity that for a while at least appears to have displaced the old self-confidence.

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"I got a lot of pity for basically moving to the Internet, " a casually dressed Mr. Weiner said earlier this month, sitting in his narrow office at the Los Angeles Center Studios where "Mad Men" is shot.

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