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The thing about Memphis is that it's pleasingly off-kilter. It's a great big whack job of a city. The anti-Atlanta. You go there, and you can't believe the things people will say, the way they think, the wobbling orbits of their lives. There's an essential otherness.

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Sometimes you'd come up against a brick wall... or sometimes you go into a fill and you'd know halfway through it was going to be disastrous.

John Bonham

YouBrickWallGoKnowSometimes

No matter how great you are, the next great one is already sitting there waiting to take your place.

Joe Theismann

GreatWaitingYouPlaceSittingHow

It's really hard to escape where you were brought up. Not that I would ever want to escape it.

John Gourley

YouWantEscapeHardUpWhere

We all know about secrets - to have that pressure of something you can't reveal. That's universal: 'Am I safe? Am I gonna be OK? Will my family still love and respect me?'

Jeffrey Tambor

FamilyLoveRespectMePressureYou

I was lucky to have parents who loved me.

Jean Paul Gaultier

ParentsMeLovedLuckyWho

America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.

John Updike

HappyAmericaYouConspiracyMake

Paul Rudd's a really weird, silly, silly man. He gets on 'Friends,' and he gets to show, like, one tiny little window of how truly berserk he can be.

Robert Ben Garant

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Larry King and his producers ought to go back to school and learn what 'fair and balanced' really means.

Mike Gallagher

SchoolKingLearnBackGoFair

I think some of the best modern writing comes now from travellers.

Michael Palin

BestWritingThinkNowModernSome

On one level, I must never lose touch with my audience. But I must, at some point, stop trying to get everybody to like me, and be true to the thing I think I need to say.

Joss Whedon

MeThinkTryingLoseBe TrueStop

If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.

Confucius

GoodTeacherMyselfMenI AmBad

I was a foodie and I continue to be a foodie.

Alicia Silverstone

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