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"Not even the most powerful organs of the press, including Time, Newsweek, and The New York Times, can discover a new artist or certify his work and make it stick. They can only bring you the scores."
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"The only work I did for the next five years after splitting from Vincent was work I'd already lined up."
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"I've done my best to work from a place of humility - always looking over your shoulder saying, "Does this suck?" and I think that's a good way to work. The other way to work is where you start to think, "I'm on fire, I'm amazing!" and I don't think that's the way to work."
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"Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow."
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"And it took me about 11 years to get a record deal, and I just had to work around and come to terms with the fact that what I was doing was going to be different, and I just had to wait until somebody was ready to jump on the bandwagon."
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"The world is sick of big IT things that don't work."
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"I think I've matured to a great extent. I think that I want different things now. That it's not about the celebrity status that you receive because you're doing the next hot movie. It's about doing good work."
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"I just like to catch fish, I don't care if it weighs half a pound or 10 pounds. But I can't do a lot of casting. I can work a jig or a worm. But not for long, especially if the big ones are biting. Those big bass will make it hurt after a while."
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"Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone."
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"I go about looking at horses and cattle. They eat grass, make love, work when they have to, bear their young. I am sick with envy of them."
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"I've never looked at my career in terms of, What haven't I done that I want to do? I just generally find a story that I think is a good one and go to work."
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"Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you."
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"Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America - that we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement."
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"You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity."
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"Publishing is a very mysterious business. It is hard to predict what kind of sale or reception a book will have, and advertising seems to do very little good."
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"In Sleep we lie all naked and alone, in Sleep we are united at the heart of night and darkness, and we are strange and beautiful asleep; for we are dying the darkness and we know no death."
Death
"America - it is a fabulous country, the only fabulous country; it is the only place where miracles not only happen, but where they happen all the time."
Time
"Not even the most powerful organs of the press, including Time, Newsweek, and The New York Times, can discover a new artist or certify his work and make it stick. They can only bring you the scores."
Work
"All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken."
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"One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years."
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