"Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly."
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"When we really want to master anything, we must enter into the spirit of it. And when we enter into the spirit of something, what we're really doing is reproducing in ourselves the same qualities that whoever created it had."
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"In exorcism, a verbal argument can never do anything. You can't ever beat the entity in a verbal argument because that's what he wants. It's only through a confront, a non-verbal confront, that anything happens. It has to be non-verbal."
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"I love nature, I just don't want to get any of it on me."
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"I didn't end up going bankrupt... I made some great investments and I held on to my money, which also enables me to have the freedom to do what I want now. But it's not about finances. No matter what, it's about keeping it real."
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"All things want to float."
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"Whoever wants God intensely, finds Him. Go and verify it in your own life."
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"I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say "he feels deeply, he feels tenderly"."
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"I think, you know, the thing everybody really wants to know anyway is not what the theory of relativity is, but I think what we all really want to know anyways, is whether we're loved or not."
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"I've always said that Watership Down is not a book for children. I say: it's a book, and anyone who wants to read it can read it."
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"Do you want a happy heart when you are old? Then get with the Lord and stay with Him. That is how it works."
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"Everybody wants to have a goal - I gotta get to that goal, I gotta get to that goal, I gotta get to that goal. I can finally get to that goal. Then you get to that goal, and then you gotta get to another goal. But in between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed - and if you don't, you're a fool."
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"A star wants to see himself rise to the top. A leader wants to see those around him rise to the top."
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"Niggers are killing niggers, and penitentiaries are full of niggers and Mexicans. Why don't y'all give us some money to help us stop this problem? We want to go to college instead of going to the pen. Give us a future."
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"I like to work with the same people when I can, and you want to get people with the same interests that you have, and the same aesthetic."
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"Always leave a way out, unless you really want to find out how hard a man can fight when he’s nothing to lose."
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"Most people try to get rich by being cheap and the price for that is that you live cheap and there is so much money out there; why would you want to live cheap?"
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"If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There's no way around these two things that I'm aware of, no shortcut."
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"You don't want to depend on an editor. If you want to regret something for the rest of your life, you want to make sure you're responsible for it."
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"I always say it's not my Arkestra, it belongs to some other force which wants certain things, to reach people."
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