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"He was certain he was anorectic, because every time he looked in a mirror he saw a fat man. It was the Archchancellor, standing behind him and shouting at him."

"Obviously, the difference between a game and actual training is you're using your whole body, so in that sense, maybe not, although maybe something to do with reaction, the speed of reaction, maybe that was of use during the training."

"Logic is not a body of doctrine, but a mirror-image of the world. Logic is transcendental."

"The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction."

"I'd the upbringing a nun would envy. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body."

"In the garment trades, on the other hand, the presence of a body of the disfranchised, of the weak and young, undoubtedly contributes to the economic weakness of these trades."
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"I'm very good with technology, I always have been, and with machines in general. They seem not threatening like other people find them, but a source of fun and amusement."

"We are increasingly likely to find ourselves in places with background music. No composers have thought to write for these modern spaces, which represent 30% of our musical experience."

"My guitar only has five strings 'cause the top one broke and I decided not to put it back on: when I play chords I only play bar chords, and the top one always used to cut me there."

"When I started making my own records, I had this idea of drowning out the singer and putting the rest in the foreground. It was the background that interested me."

"If you want to make someone feel emotion, you have to make them let go. Listening to something is an act of surrender."

"I always use the same guitar; I got this guitar years and years ago for nine pounds. It's still got the same strings on it."

"The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences."

"Most of those melodies are me trying to find out what notes fit, and then hitting ones that don't fit in a very interesting way."
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