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Charles Ives

"If a composer has a nice wife and some nice children, how can he let the children starve on his dissonances?"

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"If a composer has a nice wife and some nice children, how can he let the children starve on his dissonances?"

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"Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you."

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"Do you want to be an artist and a writer, or a wife and a lover? With kids, your focus changes. I don't want to go to PTA meetings."

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"Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same."

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"There was a whole display set up of all the X-Men paraphernalia. My wife couldn't resist telling this 5-year-old boy that I was Wolverine. The little kid looked up at me and he was staring at me."

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"The husband and wife are one, and that one is the husband."

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"A favorite cast? Lisa Kudrow, Anthony Hopkins, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, and my wife."

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