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"No, because I was always nervous about being onstage."
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"The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible."
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"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."
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"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."
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"Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit."
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"It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal."
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"And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness."
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"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."
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"The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything."
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"No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence."
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"Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing."
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"Well, I make every song I sing personal. I've never chosen a song that wasn't."
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"No, because I was always nervous about being onstage."
Being
"I always sang standards because the songs I wrote for myself weren't as easy to sing."
Music
"Well, I tried to get a record deal in 1966 or '67, and everyone thought I was too eclectic."
Thought
"We are in this period now where we all are trying to be in shape physically and deny ourselves any pleasure."
Now
"I remember being onstage once when I didn't have fear: I got so scared I didn't have fear that it brought on an anxiety attack."
Fear
"No, because I've never really changed my style that much."
Style
"You know when you take the paint off an old canvas and you discover that something's been painted underneath it? That's what I feel like - that part of the old is coming through the new."
Old
"I took it to heart that in order to be a good person, you never said anything mean about anybody."
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"A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars."
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