"I prefer to make common cause with those whose weapons are guitars, banjos, fiddles and words."

Cause, Weapons, Words

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"I prefer to make common cause with those whose weapons are guitars, banjos, fiddles and words."

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"Epistemology is the study of knowledge. By what conduit do we know what we know?"

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"I am filled with awe that filmmakers have the capacity to stir us and give us back a sense of wonder."

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"Audiences are audiences."

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"Despite a large body of work in films, TV, theatre and concerts, I am viewed by many as a Jewish artist. I do not resent the label, except for the fact that I disapprove of labels in general."

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"I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. To me it was meaningless. I would stand around in heaps of manure and sings about the beauty of the work I wasn't doing."

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