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"I consider the process of gestation just as important as when you're actually sitting down putting words to the paper."
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"We printed all the words out because otherwise nobody would be able to understand them."
"Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few."
"Once they're on paper, they're gone. I like to do as much with the words, as far as image goes."
"Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is 'elephant'."
"Bob Dylan has a way with words that simply blows me away. When he forgets his lyrics he just makes up new ones on the spot, that is what I called talented!"
"In the words of Michael Jackson: I'm a lover, not a fighter."
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"I think that feeling that if one believed absolutely in any cause, then one must have the confidence, the self-certainty, to go through with that particular course of action."
"There's a kind of dynamic quality about theater and that dynamic quality expresses itself in relation to, first of all, the environment in which it's being staged; then the audience, the nature of the audience, the quality of the audience."
"But when you're deprived of it for a lengthy period then you value human companionship. But you have to survive and so you devise all kinds of mental exercises and it's amazing."
"I'm not one of those writers I learned about who get up in the morning, put a piece of paper in their typewriter machine and start writing. That I've never understood."
"And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others."
"One, a mass movement from within, which, as you know, is constantly being put down brutally but which, again, regroups and moves forward as is happening right now as we are speaking."
"My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera, which has nothing at all to do with a volatile human condition or struggle or whatever. It enriches me as a human being."
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