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"Symptoms, those you believe you recognize, seem to you irrational because you take them in an isolated manner, and you want to interpret them directly."
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"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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"Those who want to divide the workers have resorted to the foulest methods."
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"I want you all to stand; will you do that for me, please?"
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"He that goeth about to persuade a multitude that they are not so well governed as they ought to be shall never want attentive and favorable hearers."
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"I've always said I want a farmer, not a hunter. Hunters go for the kill and they move on. A farmer nurtures; he watches things grow."
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"I once was interviewed and got so exasperated that I said, 'What do you want, a shopping list?' They kept asking, 'What's in this picture?'"
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"I want to make it so that so many things happen... that you didn't expect would happen in this series, that you realize that you have to read every one of them."
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"But I want you to know that what I'm doing here I'm doing as a ballplayer, a major league ballplayer."
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"At times those skills were really hard to do because not only was I having to contend with the camera, but I was having to learn these new skills and the ball was always kind of doing what you didn't want it to do. So it got a little bit frustrating at times but we got there."
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"If you have everything, then you don't want to go on. It's the lacking that makes you search for something better."
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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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"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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"It's never over. You don't want to be in the position to be down four runs in the ninth inning, but it's not over until the last out."
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"You can have anything in this world you want, if you want it badly enough and you're willing to pay the price."
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"I want the reader to feel something is astonishing. Not the 'what happens,' but the way everything happens. These long short story fictions do that best, for me."
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"They think that, if we were just smart enough, we'd be able to understand their policies. And I so want to tell 'em, and I do tell 'em, Oh, we're plenty smart, oh yeah - we know what's goin' on. And we don't like what's goin' on. And we're not gonna let them tell us to sit down and shut up."
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