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A guitar is a very personal extension of the person playing it. You have to be emotionally and spiritually connected to your instrument. I'm very brutal on my instruments, but not all the time.
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So when you start touring, women are definitely going to check you out first.
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If you're not a beautiful person, you can't do anything about it.
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I can't remember 16 bars. Unless you write it, you can't. I just do it bar for bar.
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You can't hire someone to practice for you.
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In Europe, the big word is tolerance. You tolerate everything.
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If you have the ideas, and you're a creative person, then you don't really differentiate in how your ideas manifest themselves.
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You see a Donald Trump on TV, just like you'd see Joan Rivers on TV when she was living, and you see a real person. That's the Donald Trump that I know.
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If you think of India in the 1980s, there weren't many writers in English around. The ones that were there, Amitav Ghosh or Vikram Seth, were living abroad or publishing from abroad.
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The one thing you can ask, I think, is that actors get paid a living wage. I would like it if all the repertory theatres that currently exist could do that. It would make a huge difference.
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Well, put it like this, if you're not a kid, you're a wizard.
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That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.
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An artist is attracted to certain kinds of form without knowing why. You adopt a position intuitively; only later do you attempt to rationalize or even justify it.
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When you're rich you don't write checks.
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I guess they're tough jokes. But there's lots of things you either laugh or cry at. And you just can't cry.
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You know rule one for the vice president is make sure you never upstage the president, right? It's rule one.
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In Europe and the United States, you've got different systems to select candidates, and no system is perfect.
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If you look at my record, I have a clean record.
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If a film is very clever and well-written, that's what gives you freedom as a director.
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The ballets you do make you into the final product you are. And I had extraordinary partners.
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Fame creeps up on you.
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In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.
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When you're at the end of your rope, all you have to do is make one foot move out in front of the other. Just take the next step. That's all there is to it.
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Even though you're married, you're still individuals. You still have to grow and nurture your individuality.