"I was tired. I hadn't slept eight hours in two, three years. I lived on four, five hours of sleep. You can do it during a campaign because thousands are screaming for you. You're getting adrenaline shots each day. Then the campaign ends, and there are no more shots."

-- George McGovern

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“Everything that happens either happens in such a way as you are formed by nature to bear it, or as you are not formed by nature to bear it.”
“The only person you have to convince is yourself.”
“There isn't a story written that isn't about blood and money. People and their relationship to each other is the blood, the family. And how they live, the money of it.”
“Wasted time means wasted lives.”
“I don't like the actors to work together beforehand. I trust my intuition, and I like when the actors are the same.”
“When we travel with a sense of mission, we attract events, people and opportunities toward us.”
“My weak spot is laziness. I have a lot of weak spots - cookies, croissants; my wife is always lecturing me about this, I tend to put it all down as habit or it's just acting.”
“If you can express something in the simplest way possible, I think there's something noble in that. It's easy to flesh stuff out and get all purple with it, being cryptic and wearing masks... I think it's a bit adolescent. I wanted to write in a way that was vulnerable. I wanted to have courage in stripping back the opaque stuff so it was just raw. I like lyrics that are a lifeline, that have a purpose to them and are not just meandering around in a masturbatory way. They cut the page.”

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