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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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"It's been fascinating watching all those pictures of me with a lot more hair Jeremy, and looking very young. And we've all got things we've said, twenty, thirty years ago, indeed the whole world has changed since then."
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"We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair."
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"Dirt makes a man look masculine. Let your hair blow in the wind, and all that. It's OK. All you have to do is look neat when you have to look neat."
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"You know us crazy kids. We'll do anything crazy to our 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 wasn't making it with the violin because I was playing all of the 'long hair' stuff."
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"A hair in the head is worth two in the brush."
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"I'm such a blonde. It just doesn't make sense for me to have dark hair."
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"There's many a man has more hair than wit."
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"I don't consider myself bald, I'm just taller than my hair."
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"It is confusing, because in this culture we really don't have anything that corresponds to geisha."
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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
"I don't think any of us can speak frankly about pain until we are no longer enduring it."
Pain
"I studied Japanese language and culture in college and graduate school, and afterward went to work in Tokyo, where I met a young man whose father was a famous businessman and whose mother was a geisha."
Work
"Hopes are like hair ornaments. Girls want to wear too many of them. When they become old women they look silly wearing even one."
Woman
"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
"I worried she might spend an afternoon chatting with me about the sights and then wish me best of luck."
Luck
"We can never flee the misery that is within us."
Courage
"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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