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"A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes."

"It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself."

"If you hear Bing Crosby trying to swing, it doesn't work. He swings like a rusty gate."
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"I see and write things first as an artist, second as a woman, and third as a New Yorker. All three have built-in perspectives that aren't neutral."

"The only stuff I don't like are Broadway musicals. I hate them. I don't even like to talk about it. I can't bear musicals."

"The thing that's characteristic of my performance is that I literally do drag the whole studio onto the stage."

"I think artists who are attracted to working on the Net will adjust their work to the capabilities of a very small screen."

"Why do you have to translate and decode things? Just let the image be. It will have a special kind of reality that it won't once it's decoded."
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