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"I'm dying from about ninety-nine kinds of shame."
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"I've found the best treasure... You."
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"Ira Gershwin, shame on him. I mean, some of the writing."
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"One is never so dangerous when one has no shame, than when one has grown too old to blush."
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"That's the trouble with anything which essentially has a lot of bits that are physically impossible: You're left, stuck, in the studio. And that's a shame. You're making a movie. You don't want it to stay put, you want it to be a movie - to move."
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"Most of the groups I worked with 30 years ago are either dead or dead broke. And it's a shame."
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"Nobody can stop you but you. And shame on you if you're the one who stops yourself."
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"Shame weakens us. It can make us frightened to take on something new. We start to withdraw from whatever might give us pleasure, self-esteem, or a sense of our value."
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"You've got to vote for someone. It's a shame, but it's got to be done."
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"You can cry, ain't no shame in it."
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"I'm dying from about ninety-nine kinds of shame."
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"But how can I get enough experience if they don't give me a chance to get experience?"
Opportunity
"Shit," he said. "I don't know why you're feeling sorry for yourself because you ain't had to fight a war. You're lucky. Shit, all you had was that damn Desert Storm. Should have called it Dessert Storm because it just made the fat cats get fatter. It was all sugar and whipped cream with a cherry on top. And besides that, you didn't even have to fight in it. All you lost during that was was sleep because you stayed up all night watching CNN."
War
"And believe me, a good piece of chicken can make anybody believe in the existence of God."
Faith
"My only purpose is to teach children to rebel against authority figures."
Purpose
"Well," she said, "how can I be sure there aren't invisible people in the world? Scientists didn't believe in the mountain gorilla for hundreds of years. And now look. So if scientists can be wrong, then all of us can be wrong. I mean, what if all those invisible people ARE scientists? Think about that one."
Curiosity
"Then she tells me that Jesus isstill herebecause Jesus wasonce here.And parts of Jesus arestill floating in the air.She tells me Jesus' DNA ispart of the collective DNA.She tells we are all partof Jesus, we are all Jesus in part.She tells me to breathe deepduring all our stormsbecause you can sometimes taste Jesusin a good, hard rain."
Presence
"Because I want to be remembered."
Legacy
"I can't remember how to cry."
Grief
"Writing is a lonely business."
Writing
"Years ago, homosexuals were given special status within the tribe. They had powerful medicine. I think it's even more true today, even though our tribe has assimilated into homophobia. I mean, a person has to have magic to assert their identity without regard to all the bullshit, right?"
Identity
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