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"What I really wanted to know, though, was what it was like to be a geisha? Where do you sleep? What do you eat? How do you have your hair done?"
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"There's many a man has more hair than wit."
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"In mainstream romantic comedies, I'm usually tearing my hair out. It's just a devastatingly difficult genre for me."
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"I hate the only one of my book jackets when I was made up professionally, my hair made into a smooth bell."
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"Yet I've discovered that how I look is not a function of anything as ephemeral as my hair."
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"One guy wanted an outline of my foot. Another guy wanted locks of my hair."
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"I turned my hair dark and have received much better parts ever since."
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"I have no detectable hair style."
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"I feel old when I see mousse in my opponent's hair."
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"I can't bear looking in the mirror - I guess that's why my hair looks like this."
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"I made my Broadway debut in the revival of Hair and followed it up with the bus and truck tour of Grease."
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"You know, the men go to tea houses with the expectation that they will have a nice quiet evening and not read about it the next morning in the newspaper."
Man
"Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are."
Adversity
"This time all the historical details and things were right. But I'd written it again in third person, and people found it dry. I decided to throw that one away."
Time
"Geisha because when I was living in Japan, I met a fellow whose mother was a geisha, and I thought that was kind of fascinating and ended up reading about the subject just about the same time I was getting interested in writing fiction."
Time
"We can never flee the misery that is within us."
Courage
"Never give up; for even rivers someday wash dams away."
Creativity
"I don't think any of us can speak frankly about pain until we are no longer enduring it."
Pain
"What I really wanted to know, though, was what it was like to be a geisha? Where do you sleep? What do you eat? How do you have your hair done?"
Hair
"It is confusing, because in this culture we really don't have anything that corresponds to geisha."
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"What I had to do was keep the story within certain limits of what was, of course, plausible."
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