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"Basically, I was pretty ostracized in my hometown. Me and a few other guys were the town freaks- and there were many occasions when we were dodging getting beaten up ourselves."
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"Sculpture is made with two instruments and some supports and pretty air."
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"You can look at the New York Times Bestseller List and you can be pretty sure that the writers on that list don't know each other very well."
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"I would say I'm pretty well at ease with my sexuality, but I'm an individual before I am a female."
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"Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly."
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"It's actually pretty complex, because there's two levels of reality in the narrative. One is what really took place, and the other is Spider's poisoned version of what took place."
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"The Sonics I found later and that was pretty important."
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"The size of my head though is pretty abnormal."
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"At the rate we're going, the 21st century looks pretty clear. It's going to be pretty violent."
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"I did tell security to make sure you stay and watch him pretty closely."
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"She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit."
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"When it comes to luck, you make your own."
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"Plus, you know, when I was young, there was a lot of respect for clowning in rock music - look at Little Richard. It was a part of the whole thing, and I always also believed that it released the audience."
Music

"No, I always felt that amongst my core fans- because there was a level of popularity that I had in the mid '80s that was sort of a bump on the scale- they fundamentally understood the values that are at work in my work."
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"Basically, I was pretty ostracized in my hometown. Me and a few other guys were the town freaks- and there were many occasions when we were dodging getting beaten up ourselves."
Pretty

"In the early years, I found a voice that was my voice and also partly my father's voice. But isn't that what you always do? Why do kids at 5 years old go into the closet and put their daddy's shoes on? Hey, my kids do it."
Father

"I like narrative storytelling as being part of a tradition, a folk tradition."
Being

"I think that is what film and art and music do; they can work as a map of sorts for your feelings."
Art

"I do a lot of curiosity buying; I buy it if I like the album cover, I buy it if I like the name of the band, anything that sparks my imagination. I still like to go to record stores, I like to just wander around and I'll buy whatever catches my attention."
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"I hadn't performed by myself in a while. It feels very natural to me, and I assume people come for the very same reasons as they do when I'm with the band: to be moved, for something to happen to them."
People

"My image had always been very heterosexual, very straight. So it was a nice experience for me, a chance to clarify my own feelings about gay and lesbian civil rights."
Experience
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