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"I'm trying to have everything that I put into the world be something that makes a difference in the way I want to make a difference."
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"Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations."

"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is."

"The difference between a healthy person and one who is mentally ill is the fact that the healthy one has all the mental illnesses, and the mentally ill person has only one."

"Sitting by the chimney corner as we grow old, the commonest things around us take on live meanings and hint at the difference between these driving times and the calm, slow moving days when we were young."

"I waited and worked, and watched the inferior exalted for nearly thirty years; and when recognition came at last, it was too late to alter events, or to make a difference in living."

"There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it."

"Don't accept that you can't make a difference. Because if you can't make a difference, you won't make a difference, and if you put a multiplier on that we will continue on an unsustainable pathway."

"The counterpart of the suicide is the seeker; but the difference between them is slight."

"One of the things that Teller and I are obsessed with, one of the reasons that we're in magic, is the difference between fantasy and reality."

"It's not what you play but what you leave out that makes the difference."
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"I've written several deeply personal songs this year, which I really love. Some of them came out of intense sadness. This has been an extremely difficult year for me."

"The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations."

"I don't like to produce albums. I hate producing albums, as a matter of fact, because I'm an obsessed mixer and I can't leave it alone."

"For Hunchback, we needed this live, gigantic choir. So we went to London and said, This is Disney! I need singers who can sing high D's, hold them for 18 seconds, and do it 60 times!"

"As a person, I'm not that hopeful, but somehow the hopeful part of me reveals itself through my songs."

"I'm not comfortable singing in front of people yet. That's going to take another 100 performances."

"I have a musical called Goodbye and Good Luck, based on a Grace Paley short story. I also have King Island Christmas, and there are 20 different productions of it this year."
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