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"But the first published thing I did was a detective story, detective novel, and I did that on my own."
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""Think simple" as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles."
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"A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think."
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"The first is last, and the last is first."
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"In Braille you write your flat sign first and then your note."
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"I think Col. North is first a U.S. citizen and he has the same rights as you yourself do, sir."
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"This is certainly not the first case in which a merger approved in one place hasn't gone through in the other. There was a case last year where the merger between two EU companies was approved here and blocked in the U.S."
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"If you wish to avoid seeing a fool you must first break your looking glass."
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"A lot of the advertisement is done by saying: first of all, have a complex about who you are."
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"Manage yourself first and others will take your orders."
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"I was really conscious of that when I went in because I felt that I was pretty solid on the first one, but I didn't have the groove exactly where I wanted it."
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"It's an extraordinary thing about Mozart is that you never tire of him... he never bores me, and he doesn't... not only bore me, that's too strong a word."
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"But the first published thing I did was a detective story, detective novel, and I did that on my own."
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"I was an accomplice in my own frustration."
Frustration
"If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting."
London
"They look so expectant, and then they look so depressed... that was the other great lesson that The Royal Hunt of the Sun taught me, it was the profundity that masked drama can achieve, that of course, the audience were not seeing masks moving at all."
Drama
"I think plays, like books, are endemic. They grow out of the soil of the writer and the place he's writing about. I think, you just can't move them about, you know."
Books
"Librarians as a race tend to be tedious."
Race
"Black Comedy is a farce that is played in the dark, as you know, with the lights full on. It's the Chinese convention of reversing light and dark, and exactly where anybody is at any given moment is the play."
Comedy
"I think I did have fantasies about being an actor. In fact, I know I did."
Actor
"I think possibly the first film that has music as its leading character."
Music
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