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Almost All The Shows I've Been Connected With Have Been Extremely Well Cast. They're Playing The Show, Not Just Doing The Songs.

They Wanted Me To Be A Concert Pianist, Because I Had A Very Good Right Hand, But My Left Hand's Terrible And I Hated Performing.

You Get Used To The Exact Amount Of Space Between Lines. You Write A Word And Then You Write An Alternate Word Over It. You Want Enough Room So You Can Read It, So The Lines Can't Be Too Close.

The Worst Thing You Can Do Is Censor Yourself As The Pencil Hits The Paper. You Must Not Edit Until You Get It All On Paper. If You Can Put Everything Down, Stream-of-consciousness, You'll Do Yourself A Service.

That's The Trouble With Awards For A Body Of Work. They Always Come At Both A Good Time And A Wrong Time. Good Because They Tell You What You've Been Doing Was Worth The Doing And Wrong Because They Ought To Come When You're Young And Excited And Hungry For Assurance That What You're Doing Is Worth The Doing.