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“It's painful to not be able to fully focus, but it keeps you fresh.”
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“I would have liked to be a comedian in the '20s, or maybe even a comedian on the Mayflower and have a statue somewhere.”
Source : Source: www.avclub.com
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“People think I'm crazy because I travel too much, but I haven't been doing any of that lately because I got a little sick this year and I've tried to take care of it.”
Source : "Burning brightly". Interview with Richard Hawley, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2006. 
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“Poetry had far better imply things than preach them directly... in the open pulpit her voice grows hoarse and fails.”
Source : F L Lucas, (2013). “The Decline And Fall Of The Romantic Ideal”, p.167, Read Books Ltd
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“If one sets a car on fire, that is a criminal offence. If one sets hundreds of cars on fire, that is political action.”
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“I like to give clues - titles - that can give a simple, evocative hook into what picture or feeling welled up in my mind when I came up with the song.”
Source : Source: pitchfork.com
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“Until I read Anne Frank's diary, I had found books a literal escape from what could be the harsh reality around me. After I read the diary, I had a fresh way of viewing the both literature and the world. From then on, I found I was impatient with books that were not honest or that were trivial and frivolous.”
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“A monster. You and your friends, all of you. Pretty monsters. It's a stage all girls go through. If you're lucky you get through it without doing any permanent damage to yourself or anyone else.”
