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"Some people stay in the academic world just to avoid becoming self-aware. You can quote me on that."
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"I envy people who drink - at least they know what to blame everything on."
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Personal Development
"I went across the fields to avoid the straight highways, along the firing lines where people were shooting at a small wooded hill, which is now covered with wooden crosses and lines of graves instead of spring flowers."
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Personal Development
"Saddam Hussein has been brutal against his people, but when he was committing those crimes, the international community did not come to the rescue of the Iraqis."
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"There are people out there who want me to fail, who want Jude to fail, who want our relationship to fail."
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"The people sensible enough to give good advice are usually sensible enough to give none."
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Personal Development
"I think we're giving people something new that people didn't know was out there before."
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Personal Development
"Bankruptcy represents a longstanding commitment in this country to helping people get a fresh start. This principle has never been giving only certain people a fresh start."
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"Coughs seem very common here, especially among the children, though people look strong and healthy, but in the absence of proper statistics one cannot undertake to say whether the district is a healthy one or not."
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"Cooking for six people every day is like having a cafe."
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"What theatre started to look at much earlier than any other form was the internal operations of ordinary people, sometimes using mythic models in order to tell the story."
People
"The problem for me, still today, is that I write purely with one dramatic structure and that is the rite of passage. I'm not really skilled in any other. Rock and roll itself can be described as music to accompany the rite of passage."
Music
"I only really started to go to plays and to be interested in drama 20 years ago when as an artist I was already well-rounded. I think I'm more disciplined today."
Artist
"What I took back, because of my exposure to the Jewish music of the 30s and the 40s in my upbringing with my father, was that kind of theatrical songwriting. It was always a part of my character. This desire to make people laugh."
Music
"A lot of my audience are in their 50s. But they want me to pretend to continue to be pretending."
Want
"I just could not believe that 30 years later we're still looking at people who are supposed to write little 2-minute pop that when they actually try to do something that's a little bit more they regard it as pretentious."
People
"I know how it feels to be a woman because I am a woman. And I won't be classified as just a man."
Man
"We tried not to age, but time had its rage."
Time
"I think I probably would have enjoyed to keep my own private pain out of my work. But I was changed by my audience who said your private pain which you have unwittingly shown us in your early songs is also ours."
Work
"What we learned quite early on is what was really important to early British pop that we produced-and this is where we were distinct from almost everybody else in this respect-is that it had to reflect exactly what the audience wanted us to say."
Respect
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