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"It's so much easier for me to talk about my life in front of two thousand people than it is one-to-one. I'm a real defensive person, because if you were sensitive in my neighborhood you were something to eat."
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Source: Quoted in Robert Byrne, The Third and Possibly the Best 637 Things Anybody Ever Said (1986)
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