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I can't read music. Instead, I'd do stuff inside the piano, do harmonics and all kinds of crazy things. They used to put me in these annual piano contests down at Long Beach City College, and two years in a row, I won first prize - out of like 5,000 kids!
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I aspire only to silence.
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I just wanna get to the end of the day without it raining.
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My favourite outfit was this black lace dress that I found in a vintage shop in Williamsburg, New York.
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I like to play poker. I have a nice poker group that's been going on for years.
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The success of 'The Shadow of the Wind' made me very happy, but it did not change my perspective or the way I was.
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When I turned 11, my dad decorated a room at the Standard hotel in Los Angeles in a '60s, Austin Powers style. There was human bowling: You run inside a giant inflatable ball and try to knock down pins. To this day, adults say it was one of the craziest parties they've ever been to.
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A busybody's work is never done.
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In writing a little tragedy, 'The Gaol Gate,' I made the scenario in three lines, 'He is an informer; he is dead; he is hanged.' I wrote that play very quickly.
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I was intentionally curbing the impulse to be funny and hiding the ability. I wrote any number of very serious attempts at poems, short stories, novels - horrible. At a certain point, I recognized that it was fun to write dialogue that had a degree of lightness and humor.
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I've never been someone who needs a lot of takes or enjoys a lot of takes. I like the fast thing of it.
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As is well known, 'McCarthyism' was an alleged focus of political evil in the 1950s: Accusations of Communist taint, without factual basis; bogus lists of supposed Communists who never existed; failure in the end to produce even one provable Communist or Soviet agent, despite his myriad charges of subversion.
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As we continue to step up our investment in education, we must not sidestep our commitment to the principle of local control.
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I'd never written a novel before, and I wrote a novel, and that turned out OK.
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I don't know that I would want to be married again, but I do love companionship.
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I think what you wear really does need to reflect what your own personal style is.
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You're always close and you never get that big romantic lead.
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We're writing a book together. She just finished one. Did you read it? Among the Porcupines?
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Make sure the thing you're living for is worth dying for.
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I admire fashion and I respect it greatly, but I don't necessarily follow trends. I never really have. I just wear what I like to wear. I really like colors, and there are some things I wear and don't care what anybody says about it being in style or not. I wear it anyway.
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I needed to get a good start. It just wasn't as comfortable, my pace wasn't as fast.
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Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life.
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We are seeing a new wave of young biologists that are attacking old problems with new tools and fresh ideas, leading to new types of bio startups and creating a much-needed engine to drive Silicon Valley into the next century.
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Fashion is always uncomfortable. When you get comfortable, you never get the look.
