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"I write best in the morning, and I can only write for about half a day, that's about it."
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"On average, Australians watch more than three hours of television a day, compared with 12 minutes a day spent by the average couple talking to each other."

"I liked the way they treated the first, second, and third place finishers equally. It was an amazing year. I only entered two song contests this year; I won one and placed second in the other. And I entered each of them a day or two before the deadline."

"Miserable is a good thing, though. If you start the day miserable, nobody else can screw up your day."
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"Well, as you know, there are 24 hours in every day. And if that's not enough, you've always got the nights!"
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"I had to go to Europe to tour and he died on the second day of the tour."

"That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle that the Vatican has overlooked."
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"I remember when I was a kid in school and teachers would explain things to me about what I read, and I'd think, Where did they get that? I didn't read that in there. Later you look at it and think, That's kind of an interesting idea."

"But I find the best things I do, I do when I'm trying to avoid doing something else I'm supposed to be doing. You know, you're working on something. You get bugged, or you lose your enthusiasm or something. So you turn to something else with an absolute vengeance."

"The only other thing which I think is important is: Don't write a book or start a book with the expectation of communicating a message in a very important way."

"One of the problems you have when you read with kids is that once they like something they want you to read it a hundred times."

"It was really written as most, I think, books are by writers - for themselves. There was something that just had to be written, in a way that it had to be written. If you know what I mean."

"I think kids slowly begin to realize that what they're learning relates to other things they know. Then learning starts to get more and more exciting."

"When you're very young and you learn something - a fact, a piece of information, whatever - it doesn't connect to anything."
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