"New Yorkers may think they're on some cutting edge, but that's not especially true. It is, however, the most exciting heterogeneous mess of a town I've ever seen."

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"New Yorkers may think they're on some cutting edge, but that's not especially true. It is, however, the most exciting heterogeneous mess of a town I've ever seen."

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"We know what we are, but know not what we may be."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same."

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"There may be something good in silence. It's a brand new thing. You can hear the funniest little discussions, if you keep turning the volume down. Shut yourself up, and listen out loud."

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"We can always find something to be thankful for, and there may be reasons why we ought to be thankful for even those dispensations which appear dark and frowning."

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"A playwright must be his own audience. A novelist may lose his readers for a few pages; a playwright never dares lose his audience for a minute."

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"The crowd may be influenced easily, largely because it is a crowd."

Ivor Novello, Welsh Musician

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"Most redoubted lord and right sovereign cousin, may the Almighty Lord have you in his keeping."

Owen Glendower, Welsh Royalty

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"I may be crazy, but it keeps me from going insane."

Waylon Jennings, American Musician

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"Never cry over spilt milk, because it may have been poisoned."

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"You may shelve your Shakespearian plans for the present. I am going to play Peter Pan."

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"Connection is what one is after in probably most media, but certainly in film, which is an immersive medium."

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"I had piano lessons when I was a kid, like most people. And hated them, like most people. And quit, like most people."

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"I prefer a life in which we don't take ourselves too seriously."

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"I almost never try to make the audience comfortable. I wouldn't want that if I were in the audience."

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"Performing written music, even when I've written it, is not very interesting to me."

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