"Bodily changes take place, like the thing with the kick."
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"Looking through the viewfinder for me is like being in a movie theater. That's what I like about it."
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"How could you even dream or think something of someone who is as uncommercial as I am?"
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"I wish I had a talking book that told me how to act and look, a talking book that contained keys to past and present memories"
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"I'm not leaving New York. And neither is anyone else. We're here. We are quintessential Americans - we're not only American, but New York-American."
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"When I was in college, I had a jazz radio show. I called it 'Excursion on a Wobbly Rail,' after a Cecil Taylor song. I used to run around the Village following Ornette Coleman wherever he played."
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"Raymond Chandler managed to write about L.A. his whole career. Should I keep going writing about New York? Is that what I should be doing? Songwriting doesn't work that way."
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"I don't like the word rock opera, but I'm trying to write on that level that's reserved for plays still, or novels."
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"Don't the people you're around shape the music, is that what you're saying? Everything does."
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"People think that I work out but it's all t'ai chi."
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"Well all tai chi has the martial aspect to it, a lot of people don't know, a lot of the teachers won't show it, or they do show it but you don't really learn it, what the application is."
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"There were lots of things that I recognized from my experience with Eagle Claw and Wu Hao, and here was the combination of the whole kit and kaboodle, the whole tamale in one."
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"My attitude is that you very rarely come in contact with someone of Master Ren's level, so every opportunity I could get to learn from him I wanted to do that."
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"I mean, there are peripheral things I do, I do photography, I write plays, I have books published, but that's neither here not there."
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"If someone teaches you alignment and - I'm not a tai chi expert by any stretch - so interviewing me about tai chi is kind of the cart before the horse - but just from my point of view as a student, it's simply that Master Ren can show you the relationship of power, stance and form."
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"I've found that from my point of view, the Chen style contained many things that I knew on a fairly superficial level from Eagle Claw, and that had Chen elements of what seemed to me the soft in Eagle Claw."
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"I try very much, whenever I do projects, whatever it is, there's only one thing on my mind, only one thing."
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"Music should come crashing out of your speakers and grab you, and the lyrics should challenge whatever preconceived notions that listener has."
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"When you pass through the fire, you pass through humble."
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