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Being an artist and having to be responsible for the art that you make is really quite challenging, and as you get older it becomes more and more difficult.
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A dream is a microscope through which we look at the hidden occurrences in our soul.
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If you don't got endz, you won't be gettin' no skinz, And if you don't got money, you won't scoop a honey. If you don't got cash, you won't be gettin' no ass, And if you don't got loot, you won't be knockin' no boots.
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If the imagination is shackled, and nothing is described but what we see, seldom will anything truly great be produced either in Painting or Poetry
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As long as I had easy access to psychedelics at the government-sponsored research project, most of my energy went into psychedelic sessions.
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I talked about the summer of 1985, when I worked at an amusement park on Long Island, the kind of place where someone would pull a knife on you if they wanted a better prize than you were giving them. You found a lot of used needles beside the cotton-candy cart at the end of the night. It was a pretty white-trash, scary place. It was one in a series of terrible jobs I've had, coming from not much money and having no particularly resourceful skills. And at one point one of my friends, a writer on the show, Jenny Konner, said, "You should write about that."
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You only live once and, usually, not even then.
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Forty thousand years of evolution and we've barely even tapped the vastness of human potential.
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I had to pawn my clothes just to pay my rent.
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Growing up, I found I was good at two things: Art and Math. To hear my parents say it, though, it was only, 'John is good at Math.
