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• I try to open up my heart as much as I can and keep a real keen eye out that I don't get sentimental. I think we're all afraid to reveal our hearts. It's not at all in fashion.

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  Fashion, Real, Eye

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• A lot of talent is a gift, but a lot is also luck. I'm very aware of that. I was born in the right place at the right time. I am also blessed because I've never been a sex symbol. I'm spared the embarrassment of acting young.

  Paul Simon

  Sex, Blessed, Luck

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• We had many more points of agreement than we had points of difference, but we did differ, and the bigger we got, the more insistent we got that each one of us should have his way.

  Paul Simon

  Agreement, Should Have, Differences

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• The words come. Usually, it's a long time before they come. And then when they start to come, it doesn't take so long for it to be finished. It takes a long time to begin. And then it sort of gets finished.

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  Writing, Long, Finished

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• I don't really like to write at a desk. I like to write when driving in a car. ... Once you're working on it, you're working on it all the time, and sometimes stuff'll come in the middle of the night, in a dream or something. Your mind is working on it all the time.

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  Dream, Writing, Night

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• I don't feel any pressure from fans. But I'm always in some kind of state of emotional turmoil. I would not describe myself as happy-go-lucky. That's not to say that I'm not happy.

  Paul Simon

  Emotional, Pressure, Fans

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• Serious numbers will speak to us always.

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  Numbers, Serious, Speak

  Song: When Numbers Get Serious, Album: Hearts and Bones

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• Maybe the heart is part of the mist.
  And that's all that there is or could ever exist.
  Maybe and maybe and maybe some more.
  Maybe's the exit that I'm looking for.

  Paul Simon

  Life, Heart, Exit

  Song: I Don't Believe, Album: Surprise, 2006

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• Losing love is like a window in your heart.

  Paul Simon

  Heart, Love Is, Losing

  Song: Graceland

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• Time, time, time, see what's become of me,
  While I looked around,
  For my possibilities;
  I was so hard to please

  Paul Simon

  Time, Possibility, Please

  "A Hazy Shade of Winter" (song) (1966)

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• Time it was And what a time it was, it was A time of innocence A time of confidences Long ago it must be I have a photograph Preserve your memories They're all that's left you

  Paul Simon

  Graduation, Memories, Long Ago

  Paul Simon (2012). “Lyrics 1964 - 2011”, p.91, Simon and Schuster

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• When I was 15, I made a solo record. It made Artie very unhappy. He looked upon it as something of a betrayal.

  Paul Simon

  Betrayal, Unhappy, Records

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• Far above the golden clouds, the darkness vibrates.
  The earth is blue.
  And everything about it is a love song. Everything about it.

  Paul Simon

  Life, Song, Clouds

  Song: Everything About It Is A Love Song, Album: Surprise

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• We're living in a certain time, and we're aware of it. And that's part of what we're aware of, along with our own personal aches and pains.

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  Pain, Ache, Aches And Pains

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• There are lots of really good guitarists, but they play with the same pedals that everybody else does. Everybody buys the same pedals, so the sounds tend to be the same. I am looking for different ways of doing that without having to spend days and weeks and months fooling around with pedals, which I don't enjoy.

  Paul Simon

  Play, Sound, Doe

  Interview with Steven Hyden, music.avclub.com. March 28, 2011.

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• Big box just wasn't our strength. We are a men's and boy's specialty store focused on providing high quality clothing with custom tailoring. Our customer is king. When we had seven stores, communication between the stores and with our customers became more disconnected. We started to lose that great family 'camaraderie' that is essentially the key to our success.

  Paul Simon

  Kings, Communication, Boys

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• The record company stay out of my way. Whenever the record is finished, they take it.

  Paul Simon

  Records, Way, Company

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• There is a moment, a chip in time, when leaving home is the lesser crime.

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  Dream, Home, Leaving

  Song: Another Galaxy, Album: Surprise, 2006

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• The death penalty is reserved for people who do not

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  People, Judgement, Death Penalty

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• I like working with sound; sound and rhythm. I like the abstract more than "What does that mean?" Nobody ever says to you, "Why did you use a harmonium?" Or "What is that ringing sound that occurs here?" The questions are always "What does that song mean?" or "What were you trying to say here?"

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  Song, Mean, Trying

  Interview with Steven Hyden, music.avclub.com. March 28, 2011.

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• As soon as your mind knows that it's on and it's supposed to produce some lines, either it doesn't or it produces things that are very predictable. And that's why I say I'm not interested in writing something that I thought about. I'm interested in discovering where my mind wants to go, or what object it wants to pick up.

  Paul Simon

  Writing, Mind, Lines

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• There must be 50 ways to leave your lover.

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  Way, Lovers

  "Fictional character: Jack Shaw". "The Assignment", www.imdb.com. 1997.

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• Cecilia was made in a living room on a Sony. It was like a little piece of magical fluff, bur it works. El Condor Pasa a Los Incas record that I love. Bridge is a very strong melodic song.

  Paul Simon

  Song, Strong, Bridges

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• ...what threatens us today in the world of computers and other invasions of privacy is not a national ID card but a number of other things.

  Paul Simon

  Numbers, Cards, World

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• To get the stuff out of you, especially if what you're dealing with is yourself, requires you to open up and touch tender spots. You have to be anesthetized a little bit.

  Paul Simon

  Littles, Stuff, Spots

  "Playboy Interview Paul Simon". Book by Tony Schwartz, 1984.

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