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"Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up."
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"Conway Twitty was always our local hero while I was growing up. He had a series of good bands. I wanted to sit in, if Conway would let me. And he did a couple of times."
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"Well, I don't know how astute I am, but I did want to be a journalist when I was growing up."
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"I'm not a person who particularly had heros when growing up."
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"When I was growing up, there was no such thing as Off-Broadway. You either got your show on or you didn't."
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"Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up."
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"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."
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"I always felt like I was a freak when I was growing up and that there was something wrong with me because I couldn't fit in anywhere."
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"I have this sense that I didn't really start growing up until my twenties."
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"Well, when I was growing up it was Ozzie and Harriet on TV - nobody's parents were like that."
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"As a Latino growing up in Spanish harlem, it's not easy trying not to be hot-headed."
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"It is a defect of God's humor that he directs our hearts everywhere but to those who have a right to them."
Philosophy
"If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music and of aviation."
History
"Death followed by eternity the worst of both worlds. It is a terrible thought."
Mortality
"Real data is messy. ...It's all very noisy out there. Very hard to spot the tune. Like a piano in the next room, it's playing your song, but unfortunately it's out of whack, some of the strings are missing, and the pianist is tone deaf and drunk- I mean, the noise! Impossible!"
Knowledge
"GUIL (quietly): Where we went wrong was getting on a boat. We can move, of course, change direction, rattle about, but our movement is contained within a larger one that carries us along as inexorably as the wind and current."
Mindset
"When you write, it's making a certain kind of music in your head. There's a rhythm to it, a pulse, and on the whole, I'm writing to that drum rather than the psychological process."
Creativity
"Theater in New York is nearer to the street. In London, you have to go deep into the building, usually, to reach the place where theater happens. On Broadway, only the fire doors separate you from the sidewalk, and you're lucky if the sound of a police car doesn't rip the envelope twice a night."
Culture
"My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful."
Work
"Chater: You dare to call me that. I demand satisfaction!Septimus: Mrs Chater demanded satisfaction and now you are demanding satisfaction. I cannot spend my time day and night satisfying the demands of the Chater family."
Social
"We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain."
Advice
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