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Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore.
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You can drain the life and nuances and complexity out of things by homogenizing them to make everything harmoniously dull, flat, conflict-free, strife-free.
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Yes, it's annoying that Hamlet doesn't kill his stepfather ten minutes into the play, but if he did kill his stepfather ten minutes into the play, there wouldn't be a play. He has to be annoying, if you will, and not do what would be the thing to do.
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Fame creeps up on you.
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Confidence is the most beautiful thing you can possess.
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With a young-adult series, you need to get a lot of books out on the market quickly. Teenagers aren't going to wait years and years for the next book.
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My short stories have always pushed twenty pages. That's no length for a short story to be. You either do them short like Carver or you stop trying.
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If you're a writer, you just keep following the path - keep going deeper and deeper into the things that interest you.
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For kids, multitasking electronically is common. But they are totally focused. You can tell a good story, and they listen.
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You do your work as fully as you can, and the ones who hear the sound join in.
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If you don't have a competitive advantage, don't compete.
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If you have a lot of sweetness and quirkiness, someone's got to have a little bit of bite against that.
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There's a lot of heartache because you don't always win. You need loads of determination.
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One of the disadvantages of being a patrician is that occasionally you're obliged to act like one.
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We all have a way to contribute, to your community, to your family, whatever it is you can do.
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If you watch the show and the characters don't look at each other while they're talking, the actors probably aren't getting along.
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We have more difficult circumstances than most of the Arab countries but in spite of that Syria is stable. Why? Because you have to be very closely linked to the beliefs of the people. This is the core issue.
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The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on.
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Everything is global now. It's not London, it's not Spain, it's not Italy - everything is everywhere. So you have to be everywhere, I guess.
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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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You know, Saint Augustine said our hearts are restless 'til they rest in thee. And I had a restlessness in my heart. Something just wasn't quite right.
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Being a decathlete is like having ten girlfriends. You have to love them all, and you can't afford losing one.
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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 can tell if you're going to be into a script within the first five or ten pages - if I'm not completely engaged by page 20, I just have to give up on it.
