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I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.
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I took the name Green Destiny from - well there is such a sword called Green Destiny. It is green because you keep twisting it, it's an ancient skill, you keep twisting it and knocking it and twisting it until it is very elastic and light.
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I traveled enormously during the 1960's, when you measured everything by where you traveled and what you did as travelers.
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I try not to obsess about recording. I'm definitely the one who will leave all the mistakes-to have that balance between what's undone and done. I try to move on to the next thing. I have friends who have been working on the same song for five, six years. They just won't let the songs go.
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I try to forget what happiness was, and when that don't work, I study the stars.
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I try to go with the flow and have faith that everything is going to work out.
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I try to trace the connection between the characters and that way a story or plot emerges.
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I turn and turn in my cell like a fly that doesn't know where to die.
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I turn sentences around. That's my life. I write a sentence and then I turn it around. Then I look at it and turn it around again.
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I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.
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I understand that Detroit was a pretty rough place to grow up in the '70s and '80s.
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I urge the enactment of a civil service law so explicit and so strong that no partisan official will dare evade it, basing all rewards, promotions and salaries solely on merit, on loyalty and industry in the public service.
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I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few.
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I used to empty the studio out and throw stuff away. I now don't. There will be a whole series of dead ends that a year or two down the line I'll come back to.
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I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ten years away. And what I thought was ten years away... it was already here. I just wasn't aware of it yet.
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I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.
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I venture to prophesy that there lies before us a bitter and an evil time.
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I wake up laughing. Yes, I wake up in the morning and there I am just laughing my head off.
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I want a house that has got over all its troubles; I don't want to spend the rest of my life bringing up a young and inexperienced house.
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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
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