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George Shearing

"Having a set, popular formula does inhibit you."

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"I try not to do anything by formula."

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"Labels don't mean anything to me. I'm trying to play as passionately as I'm able to. If they want to call that cool, that's fine. Just spell the name right, is the formula."

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"I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements."

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"If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the formula teach me?"

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"I hate Calvin and Hobbes. I think its a big re-hash of formula kid strips."

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"It's not as if there's a noise problem, because they use the same circuits as Formula One."

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"I go to see grand prix every year, and I watch every race on TV for sure. I probably go to three or four CART races and three or four Formula One races."

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"Under each formula lies a corpse."

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