"After a few months without writing, months I've lived turned outward... I fear going deaf, not being able to hear the silence."
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"I've never been able to understand where great artists come from."
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"He is able who think he is able."
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"I hope that I'm able to help people when they're going through things, even if it's just to listen."
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"Happiness is not an individual matter. When you are able to bring relief, or bring back the smile to one person, not only that person profits, but you also profit."
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"Recently, one friend asked me, "How can I force myself to smile when I am filled with sorrow? It isn't natural." I told her she must be able to smile to her sorrow, because we are more than our sorrow. A human being is like a television set with millions of channels. If we turn the Buddha on, we are the Buddha. If we turn sorrow on then we are sorrow. If we turn a smile on, we really are the smile. We can not let just one channel dominate us. We have the seed of everything in us, and we have to seize the situation in our hand, to recover our own sovereignty."
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"To condemn someone to death is to surrender; it proves that you failed. You are not able to change him, to change her; you have to kill him or her. You surrender. ... You only demonstrate your lack of capacity, your helplessness. This is failure."
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"I love being able to reach people directly, but in an ideal scenario, I would not have to rush the release of new music… but the message is still there."
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"I love training and I love being able to kick ass."
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"My novels and poems are meant to be read aloud. That's why jazz musicians have been able to adapt my stuff."
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"I know that if a film is ready to emerge out of what I write, I'll be able to go off and make it without asking anyone's permission."
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"Every medium has its advantages and weaknesses and there are many things I can put down on paper that I might not be able to put into film or into a stage performance. In each form, one can communicate powerfully in different ways."
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"You need to be able to confide in people."
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"If there was somebody I wanted to meet, I'd like to be able to get their autograph."
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"I think - I don't know, maybe it's nostalgia. But the choice, losing the choice to be able to use film is going to be - it's gone. It's going to be gone."
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"Music is something I really have a need to do - I don't seem to be able to stop"
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"To be able to grasp something of value, sometimes you have to perform seemingly inefficient acts."
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"If there’s something I can’t do but want to, I won’t relax until I’m able to do it."
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"Lately I've been suffocating. Chan Young is my air, without him beside me, am I able to breathe?"
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"I would get parts and not be able to take them because my mother didn't have a car."
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