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"There are advantages to being a star though - you can always get a table in a full restaurant."

"Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid."

"Being compared to Ian Thorpe, that could be one of the greatest compliments you could ever get in swimming - being compared to him and Mark Spitz."

"So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level."

"I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him."
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"I felt devalued and disrespected. The energy behind it felt disingenuous and motivated by corporate profit."

"Success made me self-sufficient, but it also took away my anonymity. I'm just this quiet nobody, and all of a sudden people are nervous around me. That was kind of weird."

"I took solace in my relationship with God who, along with my dog, was my best friend growing up."

"We use a Native American tradition of the talking stick. You sit and pass it around and whoever has the stick has to talk. Some people just hold it. Others really share."

"Once a week we go to juvenile hall and talk to boys there. Just go and spend a day in the juvenile courts."

"My mother, brave woman, lost her whole family when she decided to marry a black man in the '60s. When the marriage fell apart, she had to come back to her family."

"I have a desire to create more film, more beauty, more art, more love, but I don't feel desperate. It's not about creating or building a career."
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