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"A famous person to themselves, they don't get up in the morning and think, I'm famous. I'm not famous to me. Famous is a perception."
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"The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right."

"Oh no, real life is escape. The great terrors, the horrors--we hope--of your life come from reading fiction."

"Seeing's believing but feeling's the truth."

"The more you look, the less you see."

"The feeling that the world is full of people who think different is synonymous with wrong."

"What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?"

"Things that try to look like things often do look more like things than things."

"Remarkable, really, the lengths to which humans will go to fit things into their version of reality."

"But even though she was attractive, there was something else about her that caught his eye. She was intelligent, he could sense that right away, and confident, too, as if she were able to move through life on her own terms. To him, these were the things that really mattered. Without them, beauty was nothing."

"Many people, meeting Aziraphale for the first time, formed three impressions: that he was English, that he was intelligent, and that he was gayer than a treeful of monkeys on nitrous oxide."
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"I learnt from Armstrong on the early recordings that you never sang a song the same way twice."


"I do see value in music criticism. Most of the criticism I have received over the years has been very good."


"The first piece of music that captured my imagination was probably Ray Charles Live At Newport."


"When I started you were more in touch with the people you were playing to. There wasn't the distance or the separation that there is now."


"You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works."


"You take stuff from different places, and sometimes you stick a line in because it rhymes, not because it makes sense."
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