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"The human race has always defined itself through narration. That isn't going to change just because we've gone electronic. What is changing is that now we're allowing corporations to tell our stories for us."
"You been gone too long, Sula. Not too long, but maybe too far."
"I like Thelonious Monk, he's so gnarled, he's like a piece of machinery that's pulled up the bolts on the floor and gone off on its own."
"You hope people are going to be listening to you after you're gone. And they like you better after you're gone."
"Maybe anything that anybody ever has is for now. What happened before is gone, and what will happen later is an illusion."
"If you hesitate to map out your future, to make a big plan or to set a goal, you've just gone ahead and mapped your future anyway."
"Do you know what people want more than anything? They want to be missed. They want to be missed the day they don't show up. They want to be missed when they're gone."
"I certainly could've gone off track many, many times in my youth."
"Sad beyound words that Prince is gone. To me he was one of the greatest music heroes- a true genius.There will never be another Prince."
"Ultimately, I am responsible for how I live my life now, and what I make out of it. In fact, I am actually grateful for what I've gone through and wouldn't change a thing-although I admit I wouldn't want to live it over again either. Once was enough."
"Acting is like painting pictures on bathroom tissues. Ten minutes later you throw them away and they are gone."
"The poem might come to you as you're preparing to teach a lecture, right? And when you say, "no" to that occasion, that poem is gone."
"I would rather have not gone through any of the litigation that I've had to go through."
"It's funny, people say 'Welcome back' when I haven't gone anywhere."
"I've never gone to the bedroom when I was starting out and practiced away."
"Disney became hated. It became one of the evil corporations. It used to be loved. They couldn't hold onto talent; they couldn't attract talent. Some of their products did badly. The Californialand project was a $5 billion waste of money. They couldn't make it work. The magic had gone, no pun intended."
"Hell is gone and heaven's here,there's nothing left for you to fear."
"And inasmuch as feeling, the East's gift, Is quick and transient,- comes, and lo! is gone, While Northern thought is slow and durable."
"I changed it. I had to. Do you know why?" She studied him, her eyes grave. "Because that was then and this is now. Because the past is gone, even though it defines the present."
"When the time is gone, you can never get it back."
