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"Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag."
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"The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible."
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"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."
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"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."
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"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."
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"No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence."
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"Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing."
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"If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water."
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"The difference between sentiment and being sentimental is the following: Sentiment is when a driver swerves out of the way to avoid hitting a rabbit on the road. Being sentimental is when the same driver, when swerving away from the rabbit, hits a pedestrian."
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"Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing."
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"Quit aspiring and dreaming and start being."
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"Music is spiritual. The music business is not."
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"I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand - I lived there before I was famous."
Love
"You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works."
Change
"I never paid attention to what was contemporary or what was commercial, it didn't mean anything to me."
Attention
"These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a long time back and the media has taken over."
Religion
"I don't think nostalgia has to be negative."
Negative
"Skiffle was a name that was attached to what was, in essence, American folk music with a beat."
Music
"Hearing the blues changed my life."
Life
"There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles."
Life
"I'm not a rock singer and I don't want to be a rock singer. I'm not interested. It doesn't seem to get across."
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