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“All I can do is make good music and make it for the fans, not for anybody else.”
Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com. 
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“Rigour and purity in assembling words, however simple the result, create a vacuum.”
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“I think that's one of the things that has always put me in kind of an odd niche. It's that all of my understanding of orchestral music is via film, not via classical music like it's supposed to be. To me it's the same, it doesn't make any difference.”
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“This is how it essentially is for Bunny Junior. He loves his dad. He thinks there is no dad better, cleverer, or more capable, and he stands there beside him with a sense of pride - he's my dad - and he also, of course, stands beside him because he has nowhere else to go.”
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“I don't wonder about anything. I'm too old to wonder. I think the most important thing is to wake-up with a pulse. I look in the obituary columns. If I'm not in it, I get out of bed.”
Source : "Julie Andrews and Hector Elizondo talk The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement". Interview with B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. August 12, 2004.
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“Friendship neither finds nor makes equals.”
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“What I find interesting is that the people that follow your Twitters are called 'followers.' Talk about false idolatry, right?”
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“To be black and an intellectual in America is to live in a box. On the box is a label, not of my own choosing.”
Source : Stephen L. Carter (1991). “Reflections of an affirmative action baby”, Basic Books
