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"When there is no peril in the fight there is no glory in the triumph."

"Whoever won't fight when the President calls him, deserves to be kicked back in his hole and kept there."

"What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog."

"Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory."

"Why should I tell you where I am going to get funds from? If I were to do that then all the vested interests would get alerted. You must be aware that railways are full of such elements and my fight is against them."

"For myself, I believed that that 13th of March should see a fight to the finish, cost what it might! for if Bloemfontein was to be taken, it would only be over our dead bodies."
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"I'm not comfortable singing in front of people yet. That's going to take another 100 performances."

"As a person, I'm not that hopeful, but somehow the hopeful part of me reveals itself through my songs."

"It's an interesting line that I walk. The AIDS crisis has done a lot for my songs and made them proliferate, and my songs have contributed a lot to that cause as well."

"I know a lot of people who have tremendous commercial success and they go directly for it. There's something that has always been difficult about that for me."

"I've written several deeply personal songs this year, which I really love. Some of them came out of intense sadness. This has been an extremely difficult year for me."

"For Hunchback, we needed this live, gigantic choir. So we went to London and said, This is Disney! I need singers who can sing high D's, hold them for 18 seconds, and do it 60 times!"

"There is no seam between my songs and myself-they really are me. It's not like I'm performing; I'm just singing stuff that I really believe."

"I'm not totally altruistic. I've always had great career ambitions. But it has to come out in an organic way. If you push yourself out beyond where you are supposed to be, there's this pressure."

"I have a musical called Goodbye and Good Luck, based on a Grace Paley short story. I also have King Island Christmas, and there are 20 different productions of it this year."

"I was talking to my spiritual advisor. I got a letter from somebody who said that they were about to kill themselves, but they listened to a song of mine and it saved their lives."
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