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When interviews are good, the conversation can be amazing. Sometimes I've had conversations with journalists that I've never had with anybody else.

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Steve Martin

I was not self-destructive, though I almost destroyed myself. In the end, I turned away from stand-up with a tired swivel of my head. . .

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Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you do criticize him, you'll be a mile away and have his shoes.

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I believe the United States should allow all foreigners in this country, provided they can speak our native language. . . Apache.

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Some people have a way with words, and other people. . . oh, uh, not have way.

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Be so good they can't ignore you.

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You can't disengage yourself from that game if you are completely unaware of what people out there might be doing, you're just going to be tripped up, you're going to find yourself continually at a disadvantage.

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Tori Amos

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Eduardo Galeano

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The ways of change are dictated by the circumstances of each country, each place and each time. I don't think that arrogant intellectuals should be dictating to the people which way they should be heading. I think we should be listening to the people, see in which directions things are developing. People are walking where they can, not where they want to. But they are walking!

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Andre Gide

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Do not do what someone else could do as well as you. Do not say, do not write what someone else could say, could write as well as you. Care for nothing in yourself but what you feel exists nowhere else. And, out of yourself create, impatiently or patiently, the most irreplaceable of beings.

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