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"You arrive at a village, and in this calm environment, one starts to hear echo."
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"Often the truth is in front of your face, but your eyes and heart are so full of lies that you can't see it."

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"Seeing her sitting there unresponsive makes me realize that silence has a sound."

"We switch to another language-- not our invented language or the language we've learned from our lives. As we walk further up the mountain, we speak the language of silence. This language gives us time to think and move. We can be here and elsewhere at the same time."

"I like to think that Henry James said his classic line, "A writer is someone on whom nothing is lost," while looking for his glasses, and that they were on top of his head."

"I want to feel what I feel. What's mine. Even if it's not happiness, whatever that means. Because you're all you've got."

"I will never tell another person, "I don't understand you... and why? Because if I say that, it means that I am disabled in a way. The inability to connect to another's perspective is, I believe, a disability."
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"Downtown, one has less time. But there are in Europe much people who have the faith, in South America, too."

"I always traveled. I left Cameroon when I was 11 years old. I lived in the USA, in Switzerland."

"When one sings, one does not speak about the problems of the every day. One speaks about the things which inspire us, which helped us."

"I did not support any more New York. I lived 10 years there, and after September 11, I felt very European. I did not share the opinion of people in the street, who were deeply influenced by what they heard in the media."

"At one time, I was persuaded to want to make music, and people answered me that that was not possible."

"Being in the stands is very difficult. I was never playing but I am nervous watching, waiting."

"I believe in Karma. If the good is sown, the good is collected. When positive things are made, that returns well."
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