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I never saw myself as a folk singer.

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I don't think I've ever been an agnostic. I've always thought there's a superior power, that this is not the real world and that there's a world to come.

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People have different emotional levels. Especially when you're young.

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Anybody can be specific and obvious. That's always been the easy way. It's not that it's so difficult to be unspecific and less obvious; it's just that there's nothing, absolutely nothing, to be specific and obvious about.

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It's not easy to define poetry.

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Inspiration is hard to come by. You have to take it where you find it.

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What good are fans? You can't eat applause for breakfast. You can't sleep with it.

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A lot of people don't like the road, but it's as natural to me as breathing.

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I can't see myself singing the same song twice in a row. That's terrible.

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Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.

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I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.

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You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent; God, the all-great; God, the Almighty; God, the most powerful; God, the giver of life; God, the creator of death. I mean, we're hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God, God is arbitrary.

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Yesterday's just a memory, tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be.

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I never get any protests from children. All you get are giggles of mirth and squirms of delight. I know what children like.

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If my books can help children become readers, then I feel I have accomplished something important.

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'Dexter' is a very well-oiled machine; it's just a great show and great to be part of.

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The fine line between roaring with laughter and crying because it's a disaster is a very, very fine line. You see a chap slip on a banana skin in the street and you roar with laughter when he falls slap on his backside. If in doing so you suddenly see he's broken a leg, you very quickly stop laughing and it's not a joke anymore.

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I find that the only way to make my characters really interesting to children is to exaggerate all their good or bad qualities, and so if a person is nasty or bad or cruel, you make them very nasty, very bad, very cruel. If they are ugly, you make them extremely ugly. That, I think, is fun and makes an impact.

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Had I not had children of my own, I would have never written books for children, nor would I have been capable of doing so.

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The adult is the enemy of the child because of the awful process of civilizing this thing that, when it is born, is an animal with no manners, no moral sense at all.

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