Stephen Sondheim Quotes
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Burroughs called his greatest novel 'Naked Lunch,' by which he meant it's what you see on the end of a fork. Telling the truth. It's very difficult to do that in fiction because the whole process of writing fiction is a process of sidestepping the truth. I think he got very close to it, in his way, and I hope I've done the same in mine.
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I'd love to do a movie where I actually get to be kind of quirky and odd and dorky and all that stuff. My parents would like to see some movies where I'm not in peril. They'd appreciate it.
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The gruesomeness of 'Death Line' was an absolute necessity for me to bring up the political content of the film. I wanted to show how devastating class distinction could be.
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I myself feel that I'm a well-rounded player and got a lot better defensively and without the puck as time has gone on.
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Albania, Macedonia and Greece have managed to create a good partnership in the south of the Continent and are making progress in blocking the spread of the conflict. But any spillover could destroy this European-oriented partnership and create problems for the European Union countries themselves.
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We must not stop speaking the truth to the radical parties because voters will follow those who speak the truth, and European politics will grow more radical, which is in nobody's interest.
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I'll talk about these things, but it's just, you know, you only get so much time and I'm much more interested in what I'm going to be doing next year than in something I did 10 years ago.
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If it's accessible by hundreds of millions of people, then it's as mainstream as it gets.
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I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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Using MO to link crimes can be problematic.
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I haven't had that many weird encounters with fans, thank God.
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No dream is ever chased alone.
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Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood.
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The 'Police Academy' stuff was all hyper-slapsticky.
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I love 'Homeland.' I think it's such a well-done, well-acted TV show.
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The people that I admire have a wonderful balance of self-belief and humility.
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I like to run a lot. I play tennis, and I like doing outdoorsy stuff - fishing, canoeing.
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My mum and dad used to make me stand up at dinner parties and sing to their friends.
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To me, 'Underground Luxury' is kinda like a contrasting title, and the reason for that is because on this album I plan on introducing to people and reintroducing to people the side of me that they didn't see on the first album.
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I'm not a compulsive writer. I wish I could be compulsive about something. I have no regular writing routine.
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The main reason I'm in this sport is not to run mouths and make posts on Twitter and stuff. It's to compete.
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Catching the light and falling into dark And the world fades out like an overheard remark...In the falling dark
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I would certainly like to see some young women take up psychoanalysis seriously and reconstruct it from an absolutely new viewpoint.
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Friendship, obligation and greed are not good enough reasons to write anything.
