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"There's a practical problem about time and energy, and a more subtle problem of what it does to a writer's head, to continually analyze why they write, where it all comes from, where it's going to."
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"Singing connected with movements and action is a much more ancient, and, at the same time, more complex phenomenon than is a simple song."
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"Oh, yes. I knew I was weird by the time I was four. I knew I wasn't like other boys. I knew I was more fearful. I didn't like the rough and tumble most boys were into. I knew I was a sissy."
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"It was always me and the other guy. I came in second for a long time."
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"Time management is a big part of the director's job."
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"To convince oneself that one has the right to live decently takes time."
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"For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can."
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"Because I came out as a singer, I took the time to get an acting coach."
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"I stopped courting Hollywood a long time ago."
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"In time of difficulties, we must not lose sight of our achievements."
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"While there's time left, I want to do different kinds of things."
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"People aren't quite sure what it means when a book is a Booker Prize winner. They're not quite sure what is being recommended, what literary values it stands for, because every year it stands for something different."
People
"The book was at a reasonably high position on the New York Times... before I was in the country. I thought it would be an interesting experiment to see if my presence here would push it up or down."
Thought
"My friends and I took songwriting very, very seriously. My hero was and still is Bob Dylan, but also people like Leonard Cohen and Joni Mitchell and that whole generation."
Friendship
"Screenplays I didn't really care about, journalism, travel books, getting my writer friends to write about their dreams or something. I just determined to write the books I had to write."
Friendship
"Now when I look back to the Guildford of that time, it seems far more exotic to me than Nagasaki."
Time
"I do feel part of that generation of people who were rather idealistic in the '70s and became disillusioned in the '80s. Not just about social services issues, but the world."
People
"There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one."
Life
"All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma."
Family
"When you become a parent, or a teacher, you turn into a manager of this whole system. You become the person controlling the bubble of innocence around a child, regulating it."
Management
"I think I had actually served my apprenticeship as a writer of fiction by writing all those songs. I had already been through phases of autobiographical or experimental stuff."
Fiction
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