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" I don't know that I want to share all my most intimate secrets. "

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" When I was 20, in 1957, and maybe you would say I was old enough to know better, but nevertheless, I was completely nuts about Buddy Holly. And I loved pop bands that had absolutely no intellectual pretensions whatsoever. I loved the Monkees. "

" I've seldom minded other people's opinions, but the other side of that coin is that I've seldom been interested by them, um their opinions about me I mean. "

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" I am not somebody who meets a man or a woman somewhere and feels like that is an incredible character that I must write into a play. "

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