"Itâ€™s amazing how quickly something gets written. Now, when it comes, it can be on a bus, or in a store. Iâ€™ve stopped in Macyâ€™s and written on a dry-goods counter and then suddenly had a whole piece of writing for myself that was accomplished, where earlier in my life I felt I had to spend a week in a house somewhere in the country in order to get that. Conditions change."

-- William Goyen

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“I love to clean. I love to cook.”
“I've never denied my sexual orientation. I just don't make a point of it. It isn't what I do. Clearly, I'm known for the work I've done on trade and Social Security.”

Source : "Delegates consider boycott of Kolbe speech" by Jeff Barker, www.cnn.com. August 1, 2000.
“I don't know nothing about the sport. Just tune in August 28th and y'all find out how much I know about the sport.”
“Dancing up the full moon Round some fair new altar Trample the soft blossoms of fine grass.”
“Steve Martin is one of the most intelligent, well-read human beings that I've ever come across. He is equally as funny off screen as he is on. But he also has a very intellectual side, and he's a really nice human being. We actually become good friends.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Only silence is great; all else is weakness.”
“When I was thinking about The Lion King, I said, we have to do what theater does best. What theater does best is to be abstract and not to do literal reality.”
“You've got a song you're singing from your gut, you want that audience to feel it in their gut. And you've got to make them think that you're one of them sitting out there with them too. They've got to be able to relate to what you're doing.”

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