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"I kind of have a happy magnet. I can't stand being depressed, so I work my ass off to get out of it as soon as possible."
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"We try, when we wake, to lay the new day at God's feet; before we have finished shaving, it becomes our day and God's share in it is felt as a tribute which we must pay out of 'our own' pocket, a deduction from the time which ought, we feel, to be 'our own'. A man starts a new job with a sense of vocation and, perhaps, for the first week still keeps the discharge of the vocation as his end, taking the pleasures and pains from God's hand, as they came, as 'accidents'. But in the second week he is beginning to 'know the ropes': by the third, he has quarried out of the total job his own plan for himself within that job, and when he can pursue this he feels that he is getting no more than his rights, and when he cannot, that he is being interfered."

"The Lord had given them the day and the Lord had given them the strength. And the day and the strength had been dedicated to labor, and the labor was its reward. Who was the labor for? What would be its fruits? These were irrelevant and idle questions."

"If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union."

"Employment stereotypes you."

"The work I did in Vertigo meant nothing if no one cared about the movie. Luckily, Vertigo had a revival and people had begun to recognize there was something special and it gained in reputation. But it just as well could have ended up rotting in film cans somewhere."
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"If you love large, you've got to hurt large. If you've got a lot of light, you've probably got an equal amount of darkness."


"I was a pretty insecure kid, didn't have a lot of friends, and was picked on a lot, and music gave me confidence."


"Time is a beautiful thing. It's like when you meet an old lover on the street six years later and they don't look so ugly anymore."


"It's a very romantic sentiment, but to think that you would die if you didn't write, well, I would definitely choose to not write and live."


"'Time after Time' is one of the best pop songs ever written, in my opinion. It's an incredible, beautiful, timeless song."
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