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"Fame is being asked to sign your autograph on the back of a cigarette packet."
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"Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins."
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"The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down."
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"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."
"And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness."
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"I don't have wild dogs chasing people with scripts away from my door. I get my share. I've done okay. But I usually do independent stuff because that's mostly what I'm offered."
"I think my securities far outweigh my insecurities. I am not nearly as afraid of myself and my imagination as I used to be."
"I don't believe in angels and I have trouble with the whole God thing. I don't want to say I don't believe in God, but I don't think I do. But I believe in people who do."
"I don't believe in angels, no. But I do have a wee parking angel. It's on my dashboard and you wind it up. The wings flap and it's supposed to give you a parking space. It's worked so far."
"My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger."
"It seems to me that Islam and Christianity and Judaism all have the same god, and he's telling them all different things."
"The only time I would like to see was the 20s and 30s in America because I love the music and the style and the optimism, I wanted to see New York being built. I wanted to see all that, you know."
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