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Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.
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Thankfully, perseverance is a good substitute for talent.
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I couldn't see his face, because the light came in from behind him and he was in shadow, and he said, "I am Picasso." And I said, "Well, so what?
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To me, torture would be, "I can't think what to write in the next sentence. I'm stuck." Torture would be if you didn't have the next idea.
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It's horrible for someone to listen to someone learning any instrument - when I was first learning the banjo, I used to have to go out and sit in the car, and even in the summertime I'd have to roll up the windows. Because you just couldn't practice a banjo or a fiddle with other people around. Unless they're being paid.
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When I die, now don't think that I'm a nut, don't want no fancy funeral, just one like old King Tut.
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How is it possible to miss a woman whom you kept at a distance, so that when she was gone you would not miss her?
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Lots of women are getting involved. They're not satisfied just being passengers anymore.
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Any type of humor can be transferred to the screen, as long as there's clarity. The audience wants to know just what they're supposed to be feeling, when they're supposed to laugh.
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Some people have a way with words, and other people...oh, uh, not have way.
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Be so good they can't ignore you.
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I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy.
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I'm a bitter, sad, sour young man who makes a career out of hastling people with real careers.
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I cannot smell mothballs because it's so difficult to get their little legs apart.
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I've decided to take up smoking, my doctor said I wasn't getting enough tar.
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I don't really manage my time. I really just wait until I'm inspired to do something. And when I'm inspired to do something, it just happens.
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I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks.
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The banjo is such a happy instrument--you can't play a sad song on the banjo - it always comes out so cheerful.
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You can't make something beautiful by trying to make something beautiful. Something becomes beautiful in the process of trying to be something else.
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Anyone who's ever worked with Meryl Streep always says the same thing: can that woman act! And what's with all the Hitler memorabilia?
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Being on Twitter is like having a fern.
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. . . Now you see . . . they' re not fit for humans . . ." "Put them on me.
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Lacy was just as happy alone as with company. When she was alone, she was potential; with others she was realized.
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Unlike Ray Porter, his love is fearless and without reservation.
Steve Martin