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"Being stubborn has helped, being selfish is not a bad thing."
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"Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so."

"It feels kinda weird being back in a high school cause I haven't been in a high school for about a year. So um, it's kinda interesting coming back, and y'know seeing the lockers, with all the signs, the handmade signs, so being in high school again is a little bit strange but in a good way."

"Being a mum has made me a lot more responsible, it's not just me anymore. But it's also brought me the most joy ever!"

"The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so."

"I remember being shocked when I came out from under the focusing cloth after a minute or two being submerged within that, at the startling green color of those ferns."

"I'm such a video game fan that being able to do voices in video games is just fantastic."

"Those are my favorite kind of parts to do, just being a goofball and seeing how far you can go with something until you're just way out of line."

"I feel it's important to show that one thing that you do doesn't define you as a human being. It doesn't mean there aren't ramifications or you shouldn't pay for that but its not who you are."

"Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise."
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"The reality is that what you find out is that your head is the medicine. If your head is not in the right place and you don't think positively, all the medicine technology in the world is not going to work."

"For me Brazilian music is the perfect mix of melody and rhythm. It just bubbles rhythmically. If I had to pick just one music style to play if would be Brazilian."

"What I try to do is produce an atmosphere where musicians want to invest in what they do and give to the recording. I hire those musicians who I know will play something creative and interesting."

"My youngest son, who is now the drummer in my band, lives in Brooklyn. My oldest son is about to move out to California, and my daughters are both out of town."

"The music we're playing now is based on my heritage, which is Russian, Romanian and Hungarian."

"I loved the Brazilian music I played. But this is finally me. For the first time I think it's really me."

"Being selfish to me means that you have to look out for yourself and you don't have to sacrifice."
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