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"I remember thinking during those times that I wanted to write in a way where there are no rules."
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"I felt like I was making a record under the radar, and that is my favorite way to do anything."

"When I was producing on my own, I was doing it in order to - in a very patriarchal entertainment industry, let alone planet - very much hell-bent on trying to prove to myself, if nothing else, that I could do it as a woman."

"As long as I can say what it is that I need to say, then I'll fit whatever I'm trying to say around a melody."

"Making a movie requires 20 to 500 people to make and a lot of money and the stakes are a lot higher."
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"I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do."

"I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break."

"Knowing the rules and remembering the rules are two completely different things."

"Seeking the good is not primarily about rules and commandments."

"A computation is a process that obeys finitely describable rules."

"I loved writing a book in which, in some ways, it's very, very classical, and in some ways I'm breaking lots of rules about what you can do and what you can't do."

"The story grew, got way bigger than the contest rules called for, and next thing I knew I had a book."
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