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Americans just don't know what being a movie star's all about.

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A day doesn't go by where I don't create something.

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I had a really happy childhood - my siblings were great, my mother was very fanciful, and I loved to read. But there was always financial strife.

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I've always thrived on the encouragement of others.

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I've always looked the same. Since I was a child, I hated having to deal with my hair. I hated having to change my clothes. As a kid, I had a sailor shirt and the same old corduroy pants, and that's what I wanted to wear everyday.

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Sometimes you're doing really well, then, after three or four years, everything inexplicably crashes like a house of cards and you have to rebuild it. It's not like you get to a point where you're all right for the rest of your life.

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An artist is somebody who enters into competition with God.

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Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.

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Since I was a child, I hated having to deal with my hair. I hated having to change my clothes. As a kid, I had a sailor shirt and the same old corduroy pants, and that's what I wanted to wear everyday.

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I'm not really a nostalgic person.

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I dreamed of having a book of my own, of writing one that I could put on a shelf.

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Sure I destroyed my guitar at every concert, but it was okay, because I'd always get a shiny new one the very next day.

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I wanted to go to Portland because it's a really good book town.

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Grief starts to become indulgent, and it doesn't serve anyone, and it's painful. But if you transform it into remembrance, then you're magnifying the person you lost and also giving something of that person to other people, so they can experience something of that person.

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I felt alien my whole life, but I didn't feel alien because of my gender. Other people made me aware of my gender.

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Bringing good news is imparting hope to one's fellow man. The idea of redemption is always good news, even if it means sacrifice or some difficult times.

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I'm not afraid of terrorism at all. I'm afraid of loss of our freedom, loss of mobility, loss of global comradeship.

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My parents had three kids right after the Second World War, and we were all sort of sickly. Then I had a fourth sibling, with very serious asthma. The medical bills... So my parents always struggled.

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I was raised in rural south Jersey, and there was no culture there. There was a small library, and that was it. There was nothing else.

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I loved books; I read my childhood away. I was more interested in my interior world.

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