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"I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center."
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"When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that."
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"Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do."
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"We wanted to do a sequel with Jim and Jeff. They said that the word was that Jim didn't want to do any sequels. We approached him and he said he would do it, but not until next year. New Line said it was too long to wait."
"The best thing to do is just leave them alone. Alligators want to be away from you just as much as you want to be away from them."
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"All I want are high heels, high heels. If I was a girl, I'd wear a lot of high heels. High, stiletto heels."
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"But, in fairness to them, too, the popular song per se is really a pretty shallow medium to perform in."
"I was a singer professionally when I was four years old, and I did not really begin to play any instrument - the first one, of course, was drums - till I was about nine years old."
"I hadn't been a recording artist all that long when albums came on the scene, and I was one of the first singers to point the way to how varied an album's contents could be."
"It may sound a bit like an army barracks, but the truth of the matter is: there must be some time laid aside for arranging, time for working on either a book or an article - I've written two articles in the last four months for the New York Times book review section."
"As Buddy Rich, for instance, broke into the business at the age of three, I think it was, on drums, so indeed did I break into the business at the age of four as a singer."
"There isn't a dearth of it, but I will confess that it's harder for me to find songs on which I'm willing to invest anything from ten to fifteen hours writing an arrangement than it was in times past."
"Because Chicago was to radio what Hollywood was to films and Broadway was to the theatre: it was the hub of radio."
"So I'm sorry, I'm going to continue to talk to the people, because I do believe that if they get to know you and what you are as a human being, they can more appreciate what you are as a performer."
"I would be a liar if I said it wouldn't be lovely and soothing - that's the word - to have a hit single or a hit album."
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