A Quote by Lionel Shriver
At the keyboard, unrelenting anguish about hurting other people's feelings inhibits spontaneity and constipates creativity.
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There's a clip where he had someone miming me running around from keyboard to keyboard. Oh dear, I am sure a lot of people didn't know what he was going on about.
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