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"If you need an alarm clock, you need a new job."

"Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do."

"The teacher of history's work should be, ideally, not simply a description of past cultures, but a performance of the culture in which we live and are increasingly taking our being."

"So many people think they need to have serious equipment. In the magazines and the media, they see all this stylish stuff, especially on TV, and they think, That's what I need to make it work. You don't. I'm attempting a little bit of liberation here."

"The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work superbly well."

"Labor is a man crowning glory.""Not this man's.""I quote Marx"I raised my hands. The pickaxe handle had been rough."I quote blisters."
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"I see music as one language. If one musical form eats its own tail, it dies. So it needs to be a mongrel, it needs to be hybridised."

"I've never lost perspective on who I am. Well, maybe briefly, but generally I'm pretty balanced."

"If you make your living writing, and you can't write anything, it's over. It's very frightening."

"It has very little to do with my work, but if your image is not sexy enough, people won't listen. It's part of the game."

"That sense of failure, I don't know where people put it who don't write songs and aren't able to emote physically. It must go somewhere."
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