"Not long after I published my first book, I quickly found I was terrible at being interviewed."
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"You can't sit at the table of success for too long or you'll feel bored and dead."
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"When two people meet, as long as there is any form of rapport maintained, the person with the most certainty will eventually influence ther other person."
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"You're far more likely to lose the weight and keep it off if you lose slowly, perhaps ½ to 1 pound a week, exercise moderately, and find that replacement for comfort, connection, and control. That's a doable long-term plan."
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"I think the guiding principle for me is working with people, because I don't know how long it's going to last, I want to seize the moment and work with people I want to work with."
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"Technology has come such a long way and you could pretty much do everything what's called 'in the box'. It means that it never has to leave your computer."
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"I have felt for a long time that I want to return back to being a singer-songwriter for a period of time. I will go back to Broadway. But I want to make the right choices about why to go back and when I am ready to go back."
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"If you live in the same small place long enough, something you don't like is bound to happen"
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"Yes, well, life is a folly. If you live long enough, nothing is surprising."
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"I've been beating my head all day long on the same six lines."
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"I'm a bit of a homebody. It doesn't take long for me to get to the point where I'm ready to be home again."
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"Also, if you're in a TV show that does turn out to be very successful, you then can do whatever you want to do in theater for a very long time."
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"I take music really seriously. I haven't been doing this for too long, but I've been loving music for a long time. It wasn't really about other artists. I just wanted to do something more for me. I wanted to make a better life for my mom. I didn't have any way to take care of her, and I wanted to make a better way. Music was an outlet, so I went with it, and there you go."
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"That's the question: is truth an illusion, or is illusion truth, or are they essentially the same? Myself, I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true."
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"As long as you live, there's always something waiting; and even if it's bad, and you know it's bad, what can you do? You can't stop living."
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"You been gone too long, Sula. Not too long, but maybe too far."
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"If a Negro got legs he ought to use them. Sit down too long, somebody will figure out a way to tie them up."
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"Well it's hotter 'n blazes and all the long faces / there'll be no oasis for a dry local grazier"
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"Oh I don't mind going to weddings, just as long as it's not my own."
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"There's a certain fast-food approach to the whole music thing that's changed the role it plays for us all. You are doing it while you are doing other things. Not that that is new - people have had music on in the background as long as there has been music."
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