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"I always believed that I could make it or I would never have spent so many years trying to get here."
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"Why do you always insist on playing while I'm trying to conduct?"

"No matter what I have to say, I'm still trying to say it in comedic form."

"I don't think I could live with myself if I stopped trying."

"If you're trying to please everyone, then you're not going to make anything that is honestly yours, I don't think, in the long run."

"While trying to protect the republic, the conspirators in Julius Caesar enable Mark Antony to triumph. In Rose Rage, the more Henry VI tries to fix things, the more they go wrong."

"As long as I can say what it is that I need to say, then I'll fit whatever I'm trying to say around a melody."

"One of the things that I have learned since trying to bring in an interesting story in under 28 pages is that we already agree on great chunks of typical superhero stories."
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"I was very strongly influenced by women's magazines and I really believed tha a woman could not be married and raise a family and have a successful career all at the same time."

"It took so long to make it in America. The year I arrived was a bad year for women singers, the record company told me. So I starved. I lived in a hotel so dreadful I can't even talk about it."

"To this day I get mail from women who say, I went to law school because of your song. But I would hate to think out of the wide spectrum of things I have done in my career, that's all I would be remembered for."

"I thought Erica Jong's Fear of Flying was one of the biggest pieces of crap that I've ever read in my life."

"My audience is the baby-boomers, the bulk of the population. This is also a group that is being ignored by most record companies because they're not the Top 40 hit singles market. They forget these people still listen to music."

"If you had told me when I was 18 that I wouldn't have made it until I was 29, I would have said, Forget it."
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