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"What's so hard about that first sentence is that you're stuck with it. Everything else is going to flow out of that sentence. And by the time you've laid down the first two sentences, your options are all gone."
"I think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather the way painting did with cubism."
"No matter how organized your ducks are, life can turn on 2 seconds. So, you can't keep on waiting. Because, if you keep on waiting, it's gone."
"Well, one time some attractive woman sat next to Charlie and asked him what he owed his success to, and, unfortunately, she insisted on a one word answer. He had a speech prepared that would have gone on for several hours. But when forced to boil it down to one word, he said that was "rational". You know, he comes equipped for rationality, and he applies it in business. He doesn't always apply it elsewhere, but he applies it in business and that has made him a huge business success."
"Everything about yesterday has gone with yesterday. Today, it is needed to say new things."
"Daddy's gone mad, hasn't he?"
"We resort, frankly, to pies, which is a comedy staple that's gone back, I guess, to since the first pie was ever baked."
"That which comes after ever conforms to that which has gone before."
"Do you think you would ever have heard of Christianity if the Apostles had gone out and said, ‘I believe in consensus?’"
""All right", said the Cat; and this time it vanished quite slowly, beginning with the end of the tail, and ending with the grin, which remained some time after the rest of it had gone."
"The Edge...There is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over. The others-the living-are those who pushed their control as far as they felt they could handle it, and then pulled back, or slowed down, or did whatever they had to when it came time to choose between Now and Later. But the edge is still Out there."
"Who has gone hungry learns to think of the future and of the children."
"If you have the courage to touch life for the first time, you will never know what hit you. Everything man has thought, felt and experienced is gone, and nothing is put in its place."
"I've actually gone to the zoo and had monkeys shout to me from their cages, "I'm in here when you're walking around like that?""
"When the people you love are gone, you're alone."
"The Past is gone and the future might not even be, the only thing we ever experience is the now, I try to enjoy the minute."
"Depression is sadness gone wrong"
"Don't read my diary when I'm gone."
"She was more than human to me. She was a Fairy, a Sylph. I don't know what she was, anything that no one ever saw, and everything that everybody ever wanted. I was swallowed up in an abyss of love in an instant. There was no pausing on the brink, no looking down, or looking back. I was gone, headlong, before I had sense to say a word to her."
"A few of these interviews have gone slightly awry, because every now and again there has been the odd conflict of interest between interviews because of the Iron Maiden record, and I am a bit long-winded."
