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Come gather 'round people Wherever you roam And admit that the waters Around you have grown. (Bob Dylan)
Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me. In the jingle-jangle morning, I'll come following you. View quote
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We shouldn't confuse singers and performers with actors. View quote
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Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you'd like to act. View quote
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I didn't really have any ambition at all. I was born very far from where I'm supposed to be, and so, I'm on my way home, you know? View quote
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I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay. View quote
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Can you cook and sew, make flowers grow, do you understand my pain? Are you willing to risk it all or is your love in vain? View quote
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Old lady judges watch people in pairs Limited in sex, they dare To push fake morals, insult and stare While money doesn't talk, it swears Obscenity, who really cares Propaganda, all is phony. View quote
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I wanted to read all these books, but I would have to have been in a rest home or something to do that (p. 37,). View quote
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You're born, you know, the wrong names, wrong parents. I mean, that happens. You call yourself what you want to call yourself. This is the land of the free. View quote
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[Recounting a scene in The Gunfighter] Turn him loose, let him go, let him say he outdrew me fair and square - I want him to feel what it's like to every moment face his death. (Bob Dylan)
I began to think about William Shakespeare, the great literary figure. I would reckon he thought of himself as a dramatist. The thought that he was writing literature couldn't have entered his head. His words were written for the stage. Meant to be spoken not read. When he was writing Hamlet, I'm sure he was thinking about a lot of different things: "Who're the right actors for these roles?" "How should this be staged?" "Do I really want to set this in Denmark?" His creative vision and ambitions were no doubt at the forefront of his mind, but there were also more mundane matters to consider and deal with. "Is the financing in place?" "Are there enough good seats for my patrons?" "Where am I going to get a human skull?" View quote
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Well, if you, my love, must think that-a-way, I'm sure your mind is roamin. View quote
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I don't think I'm tangible to myself. View quote
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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. View quote
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Some formulas are too complex and I don't want anything to do with them. View quote
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You just don't wake up one day and decide that you need to write songs. View quote
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I'm sick of giving creeps money off my soul. View quote
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I can't stand to see myself on television. View quote
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I'm mortified to be on the stage, but then again, it's the only place where I'm happy. View quote
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I can't see myself singing the same song twice in a row. That's terrible. (Bob Dylan)
I change during the course of a day. I wake and I'm one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I'm somebody else. View quote
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You can't be happy by doing something groovy. View quote
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I'm not the kind of cat that's going to cut off an ear if I can't do something. View quote
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I was heading for the fantastic lights. No doubt about it. Could it be that I was being deceived? Not likely. I don't think I had enough imagination to be deceived; had no false hope, either. I'd come from a long ways off and had started from a long ways down. But now destiny was about to manifest itself. I felt like it was looking right at me and nobody else. View quote
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