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"I have never been an innovator, a creative genius."
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"For a while we had trouble trying to get the sound of a champagne cork exploding out of the bottle. I solved the problem by sticking my finger in my mouth and popping it out."
"I always worried I'd forget my lines or say the wrong words or the audience would laugh in the wrong places."
"We really were a very musical family. Father managed to buy us a small pump organ, and I just loved this instrument."
"Conversation didn't seem necessary when I put the accordion down and swung some young lady around the floor."
"When my parents first arrived there, North Dakota had just been admitted to the Union, and the country was still wild and harsh."
"By 1969, when I celebrated 45 years in the music business, I also had 45 people in our musical family."
"My accent remained terrible. It was very hard for me to initiate any conversation with someone I didn't know."
"If you put all your strength and faith and vigor into a job and try to do the best you can, the money will come."
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"This was genius at close quarters, and genius had that something above normal in it that was a great strain upon the ordinary mind and feeling. All five were different from each other, yet each had that curious quality of burning intensity, the single-mindedness of purpose that made such a terrifying impression. She did not know whether it were a quality of brain or rather a quality of outlook, of intensity. But each of them, she thought, was in his or her way a passionate idealist."
"When we allow the genius of simple nature to flow through us we become every genius who has ever lived."
"Genius is not a retainer to any emperor, or is its material silver, or gold, or marble, except to a trifling extent."
"Genius without wisdom is like a plane without wings, it will navigate the runway but it will never know the sky."
"In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts, they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty."
"Genius is an inner inherent intuition and perception. It is not a teachable condition."
"Genius could be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way, or even to say a simple thing in a simpler way."
"A genius is a grownup that remained a kid."
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