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Sean Lennon Musician
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"Songwriting is kind of like a craft. It's not something that just comes in a dream. You've got to work at it."

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Rick James Musician
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"I'm still James Johnson. Rick James is a stage name. James Johnson keeps Rick James on the ground... Kind of sort of."

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Lady Gaga Singer, Actress
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"Where I come from it was really unheard of to be at a party and someone says, 'What kind of music do you make?', and you say, 'Pop music.' You may as well have 'I'm not cool' stamped on your forehead."

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Fyodor Dostoevsky Novelist, Philosopher
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"In such situations, of course, people don't nurse their anger silently, they moan aloud; but these are not frank, straightforward moans, there is a kind of cunning malice in them, and that's the whole point. Those very moans express the sufferer's delectation; if he did not enjoy his moans, he wouldn't be moaning."

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Al Pacino Actor, Filmmaker
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"I don't like a lot of things like [Iraq], I never did. Being in a position of celebrity and having your words carry such unnatural weight...I've always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing."

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Clint Eastwood Actor, Director, Producer
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"Directing is more like you're being a psychologist and you're kind of analyzing the situation and evaluating each person for their idiosyncrasies."

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Brian Tracy Author, Speaker
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"Whenever you set a goal of any kind, you will have to grow and develop to the point where you are ready to achieve it."

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Brian Wilson Musician
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"I'm just a shy and retreating kind of person. Sometimes I get in a real talkative mood - but not very often."

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Yoko Ono Artist, Musician, Activist
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"Sometimes I have compared myself with a scientist or something: when you discover something and you don't expect the whole world to understand it. I always thought I was doing that kind of activity, in art and in music too."

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Terence McKenna Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer
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"For me it's an issue of are we afraid of ourselves? And we inherit a huge bunch of idealogical baggage, not only Christianity, but Freudianism, and Marxism . . . We inherit all kinds of idealogical baggage designed to make us fear ourselves."

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