"This whole thing that's happened to me, you see, this whole success thing..it hasn't yet really compromised the position that I took a long time ago in Texas, that was to be true to myself, to be the person that I...that was on inside of me and not play games..."

-- Janis Joplin

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“It's too bad failures don't give seminars. Wouldn't that be valuable? If you meet a guy who has messed up his life for forty years, you've just got to say, 'John, if I bring my journal and promise to take good notes, would you spend a day with me?'”
“When a man sees you are happy with him but you can be just as happy having nothing to do with him, thatâ€™s when he wonâ€™t want to leave your side. When you are happy, you are sexy.”
“They say now in America that final cut doesn't mean anything. As Harvey Weinstein said to some film-maker, 'You can have final cut. I'll open your film in Arkansas.”
“Any ground subtracts its own hue from the colors which it carries and therefore influences.”
“True creativity flows only from stillness. When stillness becomes conscious, the spiritual dimension enters your life and you begin to be guided by an intelligence far greater than the human mind.”
“A feeling of sadness and longing, That is not akin to pain, And resembles sorrow only As the mist resembles the rain.”
“I get melancholy if I don't [write]. I need the company of people who don't exist.”
“Of course, certain religious expressions are fine. If a tribe of Aqualishes wants to boil rhino horns in frog saliva on the National Mall to honor their deity, we'd have a commemorative postage stamp ready by next December. But let a Christian mention the baby Jesus to a kindergarten class and the ACLU wants an exorcism...”

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