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"Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis. The most exciting letters I received were from people in places like that."
"People are tired of simple things. They want to be challenged."
"The most interesting letters I received about 'The Name of the Rose' were from people in the Midwest that maybe didn't understand exactly, but wanted to understand more and who were excited by this picture of a world which was not their own."
"Maybe when you meet the people you are supposed to meet you know it, without knowing it."
"If you're a fiction writer, though, I can tell you how to let people talk through you. Listen. Just be quiet, and listen. Let the character talk. Don't censor, don't control. Listen, and write."
"In the airport, luggage-laden people rush hither and yon through endless corridors, like souls to each of whom the devil has furnished a different, inaccurate map of the escape route from hell."
"At MTV, although the audience is smaller, I found it more interesting to deliver news to a specific group of people, because my story then did not have to try to be all things to all people."
"Just to be remembered is good enough for me. Lots of people are forgotten."
"When people truly open their minds, and contemplate the way in which the universe is ordered and governed, they are amazed-overwhelmed by a sense of the miraculous. When people contemplate with open minds the germination of a single seed, they are equally overwhelmed-yet numerous babies are born every day, and no-one marvels. If only people opened their minds, they would see that the birth of a baby, in which a new life is created, is a greater miracle than restoring life."
"No witchcraft, no enemy action had silenced the rebirth of new life in this stricken world. The people had done it themselves."
"Knowing what I do, there would be no future peace for me if I kept silent... It is, in the deepest sense, a privilege as well as a duty to speak out to many thousands of people."
"To have a relationship that is pure and passionate and beautiful - I think people are scared of having that now. Especially guys."
"The Establishment likes people who take no responsibility and cannot respect themselves."
"All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!"
"People make music to get a reaction. Music is communication."
"People are still thinking of solving problems by violence and war, and that has to stop."
"I have to be pretty inclusive. I have to be pretty much inside of me rather than going out and finding out what people are doing. I don't have the time to. I just listen to my mind, in a way."
"I often wish my mother had died so that at least I could get some people's sympathy. But there she was, a perfectly beautiful mother."
"I admire all people who are trying to be a good power in this chaotic world."
"Some people think that movements, such as the movements in ballet, are a higher cultural expression, whereas some are just dirt. I think it is elitist to think that a trained movement is more acceptable than untrained and possibly unrehearsed movements."
