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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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"Paul Simon started piling up a lot of words, more than the bar could handle, and I stopped!"
"Yes and, you know, I can't use the nice words anymore because I used to chicken out by using them. I used to call myself plus size, used to call myself chubby. I used to call myself overweight."
"I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels."
"We printed all the words out because otherwise nobody would be able to understand them."
"Maverick is a word which appeals to me more than misfit. Maverick is active, misfit is passive."
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"'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.'"
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"Words really flattering are not those which we prepare but those which escape us unthinkingly."
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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 are different kinds of artists and very often, I'll be very frank with you, I wish I were a different kind."
"I found, when I left, that there were others who felt the same way. We'd meet, they'd come and seek me out, we'd talk about the future. And I found that their depression and pessimism was every bit as acute as mine."
"Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom."
"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."
"And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others."
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