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"I realized that I had to be honest about where I was, where I was coming from, and what I was trying to do."
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"If you're trying to please everyone, then you're not going to make anything that is honestly yours, I don't think, in the long run."
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"I had just done what she does in the story just about a year earlier - I moved from New Jersey and came to New York and was working at a bar, and you know, trying to make it."
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"I gotta get working, you know? I've been too busy. I've been trying my hardest, but it's really tough."
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"I'm just trying to make a smudge on the collective unconscious."
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"I think trying too hard to be sexy is the worst thing in the world a woman can do."
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"I feel more confident about what we're doing as a band and what we're trying to do as a band and the way we're looking at it as a band."
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"I don't think I could live with myself if I stopped trying."
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"Most of those melodies are me trying to find out what notes fit, and then hitting ones that don't fit in a very interesting way."
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"I didn't want to do it... I'd been trying to get out of TV for years!"
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"I don't want to be anything other than what I've been trying to be lately."
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"It's true, I don't like the real world."
World
"I'm there to make a kind of theatrical music that is desperately missing in my life. And if other people don't like it, I'm very unhappy, but I can't do anything about that."
Music
"As I told you, from the time I was fifteen, I thought the theater was too much involved with actors trying to make the audience love them, being over emotional."
Love
"Now, when I started my theater, the modus operandi was having the actors stare right into the audience."
Actor
"All the dialogue on tape, and we'd play the tape in performance. Then I thought it'd be interesting if the actor's repeated what they heard on the tape, but at a slower speed, so we'd get a web of language."
Thought
"From that time through the time I was a New Dramatist, when I was something like twenty-two, I saw absolutely everything in New York. Absolutely everything."
Time
"Which implies that the real issue in art is the audience's response. Now I claim that when I make things, I don't care about the audience's response, I'm making them for myself. But I'm making them for myself as audience, because I want to wake myself up."
Art
"I've been trying to figure out for at least the last 10 years how to force myself into something more risky."
Force
"So I decided to start writing plays, and went to Yale."
Writing
"I realized that I had to be honest about where I was, where I was coming from, and what I was trying to do."
Trying
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