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"Sometimes you feel bad about yourself when there's no reason to."
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"The third umpires should be changed as often as nappies and for the same reason."

"I've been on sets where things weren't relaxed because someone was creating tension for no reason."

"If I didn't have my camera to remind me constantly, I am here to do this, I would eventually have slipped away, I think. I would have forgotten my reason to exist."

"For some reason when I write in cursive, it's easier and flows better for me to read that when I print."

"Human reason in its pure use, so long as it was not critically examined, has first tried all possible wrong ways before it succeeded in finding the one true way."

"Every part I've done has been for one reason or another-money, or the part, or the director, or the location. I'd like to get one thing that's all of those combined."

"Sometimes I like them artificial and sometimes I like them real. And the reason is because sometimes I like a real close sound. And I like a very specific snare sound and I can't get that in the big room."

"That's the reason support for the National Endowment of the Arts is so important. It enables those ventures that aren't viable commercially to be done."

"I think if you run away from who you are, that you're a Democrat and you're proud to be a Democrat, it's foolish. And the reason it's foolish is you've got a lot to be proud of."
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"Dance is for everybody. I believe that the dance came from the people and that it should always be delivered back to the people."

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