No Direction Home: Bob Dylan
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and of will that some people have...
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where when they're doing something,
they're really doing it...

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and you know that
you have to pay attention to them.

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I first met Bob in the winter of 1961.
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We were awkward.
Neither of us really knew quite what to say.

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So as a prop he pulled out this card.
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And he was moving his leg like that
and he just hands me the card.

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And after he handed it to me
he kind of glances and then...

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continues to sort of
talk about Woody Guthrie.

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And on the card it said,
"I ain't dead yet," signed, Woody Guthrie.

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And it was actually Woody's handwriting,
I guess, because Bob claimed it was.

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Like, Woody was very important
to both of us.

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Bob, I think, wanted to be
more like Woody than I did.

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He was able to adopt
a kind of theater about himself.

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Actually, the very first time that I met him,
he was really acting, in a way.

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And that was good because you can
go anywhere when you're somebody else.

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Cinderella, she seems so easy
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"It takes one to know one," she smiles
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And puts her hands into her back pockets
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Bette Davis style
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And in comes Romeo, he's moaning
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"You Belong to Me, I Believe"
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And someone turns and says to him
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"My friend, you'd better leave"
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And the only sound that's left
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after the ambulances go
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is Cinderella sweeping up
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on Desolation Row
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Now the moon is almost hidden
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The stars, they're just pretending to hide
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The fortune-telling lady
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has even taken all her things inside

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