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"By the end of the week, if I'm still alive, I get to write whatever I want about it all."
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"What can you do to ensure that your voice value translates into impression value?"
"Art is a distinct form of human communication. Art interprets experience, sensation, and feelings. An artistic work translates our mental images and allows other people to understand what we feel; art conveys our happiness, sadness, hopes, doubts, anxieties, fears, desires, and ineffable longings."
"Heaven resonates when one sings wholeheartedly."
"You won't write, won't ya??I just focus on the negative!"
"There are things known-things experienced, felt, and understood-that words hold no power to convey. Attempting to do so only dilutes their substance and does them injustice."
"If something inside of you is real, we will probably find it interesting, and it will probably be universal. So you must risk placing real emotion at the center of your work. Write straight into the emotional center of things. Write toward vulnerability. Risk being unliked. Tell the truth as you understand it. If you're a writer you have a moral obligation to do this. And it is a revolutionary act-truth is always subversive."
"In a man's letters his soul lies naked."
"Life is a sacred story."
"Music is much like fucking, but some composers can't climax and others climax too often, leaving themselves and the listener jaded and spent."
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"For years, I've pushed the idea of a column compilation book mainly because it would be easy - I could just staple 'em all together. But publishers have been resistent, feeling the material dates."
"It's not enough for me to cover theater, I have to throw myself around every other art form, and do so thoroughly and relentlessly."
"In '75, the year both A Chorus Line and Chicago hit Broadway, my head spun around and I became the ultimate theater queen for life."
"It's a good thing that columnists don't make homosexuality their last taboo anymore. But I wish the columnists themselves would come out too."
"I don't know about you, but I can tell when someone's lying. They can't look you in the eye - they look you in the bridge of your nose."
"For better or worse, I've always tried to march to my own drum and tell it like it is, while preserving some integrity and style. God, I'm fabulous!"
"The difference is that with fame comes a spotlight, one which has recently made it impossible to ignore the fact that more and more of those folks we place on pedestals aren't even pausing to consider an option other than lying."
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