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"I grew up with a lot of boys. I probably have a lot of testosterone for a woman."

"When I wrote The Virgin Suicides, I gave myself very strict rules about the narrative voice: the boys would only be able to report what they had seen or found or what had been told to them."

"The fact of the matter is that everybody treats me pretty much as one of the boys, which I take as a great compliment."

"Meccano gives boys the secrets of the world's wonderful engineering structures."

"Little girls and boys, barefooted, walked up and down between the endless rows of spindles, reaching thin little hands into the machinery to repair snapped threads."

"Corey feldman and I did sneak into the screening room one day during Lost Boys."
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"I just came from Aspen, Colorado and they had fifteen kids I played for and they all played horns."

"I heard Mr. Wild Bill Davis. I heard him play in 1930 and he told me that it would take me fifteen years just to learn the pedals, the pedals of the organ and I got mad."

"Three months. I was playing the organ for three months. It was a challenge for me in the beginning."

"And then when I found my sound, it took me two and a half weeks to find my sound and when I did I pulled out all the stops, all the stops I could find."

"My first recording, a guy came down to Philadelphia and heard me play and he introduced me to Alfred Lion."
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