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"There is some reason, obviously, that you are drawn to your material, but the way in which you explore it might come to be quite different from what you would expect."
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"I've been on sets where things weren't relaxed because someone was creating tension for no reason."
"If I didn't have my camera to remind me constantly, I am here to do this, I would eventually have slipped away, I think. I would have forgotten my reason to exist."
"Human reason in its pure use, so long as it was not critically examined, has first tried all possible wrong ways before it succeeded in finding the one true way."
"Sometimes I like them artificial and sometimes I like them real. And the reason is because sometimes I like a real close sound. And I like a very specific snare sound and I can't get that in the big room."
"That's the reason support for the National Endowment of the Arts is so important. It enables those ventures that aren't viable commercially to be done."
"I don't believe things happen in vain. I believe they happen for a reason."
"Religion is a distraction from true education."
"For some reason, the concept of writing with swing chords was intimidating."
"Reason is flawless, de jure, but reasoners are not, de facto."
"A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason."
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"When I was teaching at Harvard in the 1970s, I went to Project Incorporated in Cambridge and took photography classes. I didn't even know how to aim the camera in those days."
"It's interesting, though, that in daily life, I think of myself as being relatively unobservant."
"If you could have a book called My Favorite Six Stories, I don't think I'd have trouble doing that."
"When I lived in New York, not only did I have safety locks on the door but I had the music going, keeping the city at a distance, trying to find creative time and peace and so forth."
"Well, a few years ago I think I could have given you a more enthusiastic answer about that but in the last few years, for the first time in my life, I really haven't listened to much music. I used to work with music on and now I don't."
"Quite often my narrator or protagonist may be a man, but I'm not sure he's the more interesting character, or if the more complex character isn't the woman."
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