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"Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up."
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"Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up."
"There are things about growing up in a small town that you can't necessarily quantify."
"Growing up in Denver, I'm sure it started with loving the Colorado mountains."
"Remember, it's still a mystery to be an adult. If you knew it all before eighteen, you'd have nothing to look forward to."
"I think it's very important that we instill in our kids that it has nothing to do with their name or their situation that they're growing up in; it has to do with who they are as an individual."
"I was on the set when I was five years old with Spencer Tracy. A lot of what I learned growing up in terms of artistry is very clean, very tidy, very organized."
"We're all just trying to fit in and find ourselves, particularly when we're growing up."
"You try various things when you're growing up. I was an attache in the Foreign Service for a while and then I drove a bulldozer, but neither of those panned out for me so it had to be stand-up."
"I never felt like I belonged in Minnesota when I was growing up there. That's why I was out the door as soon as I turned 18."
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"Carnal embrace is sexual congress, which is the insertion of the male genital organ into the female genital organ for purposes of procreation and pleasure. Fermat's last theorem, by contrast, asserts that when x, y and z are whole numbers each raised to power of n, the sum of the first two can never equal the third when n is greater than 2."
"We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else."
"Words are sacred. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones, in the right order, you can nudge the world a little."
"When I was twelve I was obsessed. Everything was sex. Latin was sex. The dictionary fell open at 'meretrix', a harlot. You could feel the mystery coming off the word like musk. 'Meretrix'! This was none of your mensa-a-table, this was a flash from a forbidden planet, and it was everywhere. History was sex, French was sex, art was sex, the Bible, poetry, penfriends, games, music, everything was sex except biology which was obviously sex but not really sex, not the one which was secret and ecstatic and wicked and a sacrament and all the things it was supposed to be but couldn't be at one and the same time - I got that in the boiler room and it turned out to be biology after all."
"Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it."
"If I had been asked to write 1,200 words for a newspaper tomorrow, on any subject, I would just do it rather than leave a white hole in the page. And I think it's a very healthy attitude to take to writing anything."
"I think... the history of civilization is an attempt to codify, classify and categorize aspects of human nature that hardly lend themselves to that process."
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