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"The worst thing you can do is censor yourself as the pencil hits the paper. You must not edit until you get it all on paper. If you can put everything down, stream-of-consciousness, you'll do yourself a service."
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"When lip service to some mysterious deity permits bestiality on Wednesday and absolution on Sunday, cash me out."

"When you serve the humanity and contribute to the society without expectation, you are happy."

"The most rewarding times are those spent in changing lives for the sake of humanity."

"If you have not been served personally by caring hands in your own life, do not be bitter, but instead, ask yourself who you can now serve."

"We can help the next generation, with the stories we write today."
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"The movie adaptations of stage musicals that I've seen, without exception, in my opinion don't work. A lot of people would disagree with me."


"When you know your cast well and their strengths and weaknesses, you can start writing for them, just the way Shakespeare wrote for his actors."


"I chose and my world was shaken. So what? The choice may have been mistaken; the choosing was not. You have to move on."


"My mother wanted me off her hands. She was a working woman. She designed clothes, and she was a celebrity collector. It's my mother's ambition to be a celebrity."


"Nowadays, there are sometimes more producers than there are people in the cast, because it takes that much money to put a show on."


"By the time I was 22, I was a professional. A young and flawed professional, but not an amateur."


"I don't listen to recordings of my songs. I don't avoid it, I just don't go out of my way to do it."
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