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"I think all of those things, but certainly the booze really brought out the really unreasonable side of me, and I just didn't want to revisit that place again."
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"So it's one of those things where we have to - our problem is pacing ourselves and still reaching a large enough number of our audience. Because we don't want to burn the audience. And we don't want to be excluding anybody."
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"Everyone has egos, and you want to come out on top. You have to pick yourself up and go at it again."
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"I don't want to prove to anyone or prove to myself. I'd rather just enjoy and show myself that I am capable of doing it and actually going through the process."
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"There was an inquiry just last week about the new Bette Midler show, and I just didn't want to do that."
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"If the picture speaks to me, if it tells me something about myself, then I want it. Then I have to have it."
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"I don't know what it is that I'm doing, but I'm really enjoying myself. And I'm free to do it as much as I want."
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"Before I'm a writer, I'm definitely a reader and when I read memoir, I really want it to be true."
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"I feel that if I said anything about John, I would have to sit here for five days and say it all. Or I don't want to say anything."
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"It's not so much what do I want to be doing in 15 years, it's how I want to be in 15 years."


"If you confine it, you're confining a whole thing. If you make it spontaneous, so that anything can happen, like we don't want to confine or restrict anything. What we can do, whatever we can let happen, you just let it happen."
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"I however don't go to clubs to show off and to be seen, and certainly not to make statements. I just want to be able to quietly watch a band."
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"I'm sick of all these knights in shining armor parts, I want to do something worthwhile like plays and films that have something to say."
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"If I live for another ten years I shall probably have written all that I want to write."


"I think I have a superior brain and an inferior stature, if you really want to get brutal about it."
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"I remember everything, even the dates. But I don't want others to remember the details, just the image."
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"Eventually I would like to touch all the genres. I would like to do some detective stories, and I want to do a Western. I would want to do humorous Westerns."
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"Before we give you billions more, we want to know what you've done with the trillion you've got."
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"What you want, when you want it. As opposed to everything you could ever want, even when you don't."
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"Send it to someone who can publish it. And if they won't publish it, send it to someone else who can publish it! And keep sending it! Of course, if no one will publish it, at that point you might want to think about doing something other than writing."


"Those who want to divide the workers have resorted to the foulest methods."
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