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"I don't think you need to dumb down to a child, you merely have to be clear, you know?"
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"I went to college and I never allowed myself to think for an instant that I would have this chance to do this."
Chance
"So I came home and I had a resume and everything, but the only job experience I had was just playing in bars and clubs on my summers off. So, I was temping and stuff during the day and playing music at night."
Experience
"You know, that single girl life and that sense of isolation - that doesn't leave you just like that. And that's what that song is about. I remember that, and that is imprinted on me, that sense."
Life
"I kept thinking, I went to college and I have to get a real job."
College
"About age ten, we moved from the place where I was born, moved overseas."
Age
"So I think that if I do feel more freedom right now in my career, it's not so much because I have less at stake but more a sense that I've learned more."
Career
"I think that every new record is a chance to... I think what it is for me is my heart and soul at that moment in time... I've always felt that just being able to make a record is a privilege."
Time
"I was a liberal arts junkie and I figured, well, I'll go work for somebody somewhere. All I knew was that I was going to have to come home and figure it out."
Home
"Emmy Lou Harris introduced me to the work of the Vietnam Veterans of America foundation and the Campaign for a Land Mine Free World."
Work
"I don't really remember my folks singing to us, but they read to us."
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"Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm."
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"I had to go to a mirror and look at it. I couldn't picture myself in my own head. I had no image beyond a stick figure. I wasn't a mean person as a kid, or dumb, and something has to be said to justify excluding you."
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"I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy."
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"We're not going to dumb down for them. They have to move up. They're the network and we're the show."
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"I don't think you need to dumb down to a child, you merely have to be clear, you know?"
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"I'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information."
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"Well, first I studied piano. I wasn't very satisfied because I though my teachers were dumb... and repressive."
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"However, we couldn't focus on the films much during the series because we're dumb. Individually we're smart guys, but together we're one big dumb guy, and couldn't concentrate on two things at once."
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"I do dumb stuff, like playing my favorite dumb Barry White song and lip-synching into the mirror so it looks like his voice is coming out of my mouth."
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"Elvis is not so difficult as Johnny Cash because his voice is so distinctive. If you try to copy Johnny Cash, it's just going to sound dumb."
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