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"The first things I did when I got out of school in '65 was to buy a pair of Levis and pierce my ears."
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"Hang 'em first, try 'em later."
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"When Seymour saw me seated at the piano at that first rehearsal, he shouted: 'What's that kid doing here? Call your piano player and let's get started.'"
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"I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer."
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"You must first get along with yourself before you can get along with others."
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"Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does."
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"In the first place, Descartes stands for the most explicit and uncompromising dualism between mind and matter."
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"The first 20 stories written about a public figure set the tone for the next 2,000 and it is almost impossible to reverse it."
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"The job in Wisconsin was the first genuine offer of an academic job in a university which I received."
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"After I did the first Die Hard I said I'd never do another, same after I did the second one and the third. The whole genre was running itself into the ground."
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"We consider Monteverdi the first composer of opera. There was someone before, but everything started with Monteverdi."
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"The first things I did when I got out of school in '65 was to buy a pair of Levis and pierce my ears."
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"Even then, our family was extraordinary, with ten kids."
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"You don't have to tell anybody a damn thing you don't want to."
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"I met John when I was 18 and I was in my first John Waters film when I was 19."
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"But some things are the same. My mother still owns the house I grew up in, on what would now be called a cul de sac, but which the sign on the corner called a dead end street."
Mother

"Restless, and in desperate need of adventure, I quit my job at an insurance company to travel west with a couple of guys I smoked pot with, scandalizing my family."
Family

"The point is, when you have a chance to have a big adventure, especially if, like in your case, it doesn't hurt anyone, it's just plain foolish not to take it."
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"John is a cottage industry in Baltimore and the city opens its doors for him whenever he is making a new film."
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"It was there that, through a mutual friend, I met John Waters - proving what I've always said: you meet the best people on field trips."
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