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"Any entertainer who tells you that the adoration of fans is not a heady experience probably never had the experience."
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"Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you--it's a wall that an active you runs up against."
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"A misadventure is an act that has a safer, less self-detrimental, less interesting alternative. But you choose that act because you want to do something memorable and worthy of discussion."
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"How long does the experience of pleasure or pain stay with you? For as long as there is weakness within. Then, further ahead they will not be there. There, one remains the 'Knower' of experience of pleasure and pain."
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"Life is a book. Read it. But do not forget to write yours."
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"At least I can say I once worked a day on a tea plantation in Far North Queensland."
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"Simultaneously the whole party moved toward the water, super-ready from the long, forced inaction, passing from the heat to the cool with the gourmandise of a tingling curry eaten with chilled white wine."
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"Mr Lorry asks the witness questions:Ever been kicked? Might have been.Frequently? No. Ever kicked down stairs? Decidedly not; once received a kick at the top of a staircase, and fell down stairs of his own accord."
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"Elders in the dark see better than children in the light."
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"Beyond these moments, she could hardly count the fumbling ministrations of boys in high school who, even to her senior prom, never went beyond sticky pleasantries. With one exception, it was just a sort of half-clothed handshake for bragging rights, none hers."
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"There was a kindliness about intoxication - there was that indescribable gloss and glamour it gave, like the memories of ephemeral and faded evenings."
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"It used to be that if you had a pretty good record, you could stop by a station in Little Rock or Atlanta and let the DJ listen to it. No way something like that can happen now."
Now
"Even now, when I'm asked how I'm doing, I like to reply, 'Pretty good. I've got all my fingers and both eyes."
Life
"There are worse things than being thought a Republican."
Thought
"Once your name becomes well known, politicians come courting."
Lifestyle
"A fan will grab you and hug you and will not let go. When that happens, you wish it could be that way all over the world."
Will
"Too many religious organizations are in the business of enforcing beliefs."
Business
"Singing as a full-time job was not something I had given a lot of thought to and I had no clear notion of the money to be made in it."
Money
"I was always a dreamer, in childhood especially. People thought I was a little strange."
Thought
"Any entertainer who tells you that the adoration of fans is not a heady experience probably never had the experience."
Experience
"Performing is an experience, for me, that is as humbling as it is energizing."
Experience
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