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“Throughout chess history, great debates have raged about the pros and cons of hanging pawns. The debates are nonsense; the answer is cut and dried. If the pawns can be attacked and forced to move forward, they are weak. If they can be defended and remain where they are, they are strong.”
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“If you're talking about musically, I think I understand just a little bit more about things that were mostly intuited back then - how certain timings and tones work, so I can be a little more analytical about things now.”
Source : "The Only Late is Never". Interview with Marc Masters, Grayson Currin, pitchfork.com. November 12, 2010. 
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“Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.”
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“At this moment, somewhere in the world, children died of starvation, bombs exploded to maim and kill the innocent, hurricanes destroyed everything in their path, but the loveliness of this moment was as real as wars and plagues and heartbreak. Pleasure and beauty are as valid as pain and ugliness and when I am fortunate enough to enjoy the former, I do so.”
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“If you are under the illusion that you can start a business and run it at your life's schedule, you are mistaken. The business is like a starving puppy - when it needs to eat, then it needs to eat regardless of what you have going on personally.”
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“With age, you get to a place where you don't want to knock people out. You just want to give people a hug.”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“Guns are evil! And very little good comes from the availability of a bullet designed to kill human beings!”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“I've always hated narrative songs. I hate those songs where, basically, it's an unfolding of a story.”
