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"I don't set goals. Like, that's what I want to be doing however many years from now. I do what I love to do at the moment. If I wake up tomorrow and decide I want to dance, that's what I'd do. Or design clothes."
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"I don't have dreams. How can I say it? I myself am a dream."
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"In the beginning, I was searching for myself in my music. My music was for me. I didn't have the mental room to be conscious of the listener; I wrote to save myself."
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"I don't set goals. Like, that's what I want to be doing however many years from now. I do what I love to do at the moment. If I wake up tomorrow and decide I want to dance, that's what I'd do. Or design clothes."
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"I have trouble voicing my thoughts... I can't communicate very well that way."
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"It's hard to decide how to match words to music. It's not like it's twice the work. It's always difficult for me to explain to the composer what I'm looking for. I'm not a professional; I lack even basic knowledge about writing music."
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"I'd heard a lot of Asian people were rooting for me, but I had no idea. I was stunned. They were... impassioned, especially compared to Japan. I couldn't even have anticipated that kind of welcome."
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"The way I work, typically, I do everything at the very last minute. Even if I was given two months, I'd do it in the last three days."
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"I don't think you should meet the people you most admire. I don't want reality to interfere with my image."
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"I read and watch movies. I can't go to the movie theater much anymore, though, because I get recognized. It's worse sometimes if I wear a costume and try not to get recognized. I watch most of my films on airplanes."
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"I understand it's my role to realize people's dreams."
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"We thought it would be fun to try to design a show that would work well internationally and so that' s what we're intending to do with Fraggle Rock, and we are indeed now selling it around the world."
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"Ultimately we may still ask, why can't humans design a perfect society?"
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"People who run a ready-to-wear company are businessmen rather than production or design people."
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"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools."
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"I was very interested in theatre, mostly in stage design. I did a little bit of acting."
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"I believe consistency and orthogonality are tools of design, not the primary goal in design."
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"I mean, I think about it, but I don't design my record to get a certain public response."
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"I don't start with a design objective, I start with a communication objective. I feel my project is successful if it communicates what it is supposed to communicate."
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"I've been amazed at how often those outside the discipline of design assume that what designers do is decoration. Good design is problem solving."
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"Design is directed toward human beings. To design is to solve human problems by identifying them and executing the best solution."
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