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"Time management is a big part of the director's job."

"To convince oneself that one has the right to live decently takes time."

"The passage of time is simply an illusion created by our brains."

"The mind of man, moreover, works with equal strangeness upon the body of time. An hour, once it lodges in the queer element of the human spirit, may be stretched to fifty or a hundred times its clock length; on the other hand, an hour may be accurately represented on the timepiece of the mind by one second."

"Thirteen days. Almost two weeks. And, just five days in, she had learned a fundamental truth about time: Like the accordion on which sometimes played old Pashto songs were played, time stretched and contracted depending on his absence or presence."
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"I never fixed a story. I didn't make judgments, I let the listener make judgments. When I got to the end of the story, if it had a moral, I let the listener find it."


"I took up a sort of a hobby of just hanging around the local library. I'd pick out an author and I would read all their books."


"I had the notion that I wanted to write the great dirty American novel, so I went to Roanoke College on the GI Bill."


"When you retire, it's a place in life, a part of the journey. You just don't quit work; you develop an attitude where you can do what you please."


"I'm a very comfortable and happy-go-lucky old man. I never wanted to be great, because I'd just get worried."


"Young kids are doing the same thing I did, but they're doing it differently. They don't do brain surgery the way they used to do it either."


"After I retired and came off the road, I gathered up all my musical instruments and suddenly, I wanted them all to be perfect."


"The way you look for songs, you find yourself looking for little signals and clues about life and how things are."


"I have had hundreds of people work for me over the years, and I don't think I ever fired anybody."
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