"Like any dealer he was watching for the card that is so high and wild he'll never need to deal another. He was just some Joseph looking for a manger."
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"English, I know you ... you are German with a license to kill."
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"One is distracted by this notion that there is such an thing as inspiration, that it comes fast and easy. And some people are graced by that style. I'm not. So I have to work as hard as any stiff to come up with my payload"
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"As soon as anybody does one of my songs, I rejoice. This particular case of all these great singers doing my work - the implications are very rich and the temptation to think of the outcome of these masses of the mainstream injecting my work into the marketplace, it's a very sweet speculation."
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"You win a while, and then it’s done - Your little winning streak."
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"The winter has not killed usagain!"
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"Growing old becomes clear to you at a certain point. I think it's after the age of 70 you realize - you begin to actually be convinced - you're growing older."
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"I think what we like about music - and what we like about art in general....is that enterprise that stops our minds from spinning. Because we're always all over the place. A good song, a good lyric is a movie: it will just focus and calm and confer significance on this completely bewildering reality that all of us live in."
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"I do cherish those moments when I can just relax in the hotel room. Because there are a lot of details that have to be taken care of aside from just getting up onstage. You're dealing with a number of human beings whose well-being and safety you're concerned about. There are people I like to meet and talk to in the crew and the band."
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"In streams of light I clearly saw The dust you seldom see, Out of which the Nameless makes A Name for one like me... All busy in the sunlight The flecks did float and dance, And I was tumbled up with them In formless circumstance."
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"If your life is a leaf that the seasons tear off and condemn they will bind you with love that is graceful and green as a stem."
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"From bitter searching of the heart, quickened with passion and with pain we rise to play a greater part this is the faith from which we start."
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"I am not the one who loves - It's love that chooses me."
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"Although only one man may be receiving the favors of a woman, all men in her presence are warmed."
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"What [Prozac] does is completely annihilate the sexual drive, so the question of passion hardly arises."
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"Friend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don't know what to say."
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"If you're squeezed for information, / that's when you've got to play it dumb: / You just say you're out there waiting / for the miracle, for the miracle to come."
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"It’s a depressing habit you have of loving to sneeze and of eating apples as if they were juicier for you and being the first one to exclaim how good the movie is. You depress people. We like apples too."
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"Do not believe the truth. The truth is tiny compared to what you have to do."
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"And may my bronze name / touch always her thousand fingers / grow brighter with her weeping / until I am fixed like a galaxy / and memorized / in her secret and fragile skies."
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