Satyajit Ray Quotes
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I've appreciated how Patrick has handled the situation all year. It says a lot about him and his character.
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We can't in any way criticize or at least indict or impeach administration [of Democratic presidents] for doing what they did.
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Overcoming my dad telling me that I could never amount to anything is what has made me the megalomaniac that you see today.
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To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.
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I tell you (dogmatically, if you like to call it so, knowing it well) a square inch of man's engraving is worth all the photographs that were ever dipped in acid... Believe me, photography can do against line engraving just what Madame Tussaud's wax-work can do against sculpture. That and no more. (1865)
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We must not reject all sexual contact between adults and young people as inherently oppressive.
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You know my father as governor, as president, but I knew him as dad. I was so proud to have the Reagan name and to be Ronald Reagan's son.
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A man could and would wipe me off the court. I really feel that the male is naturally superior to the female in all endeavors.
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I hate the word 'cool.' It gives me a rash.
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Even if the script's well written there's something about the life of an improvisation that resonates better than a written word, sometimes.
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I become exaggerated, and loud, and obnoxious, and full of the spirit of improvisation. That's one of the weird things about performing, I think that any performer will say the same thing when you're on stage in front of a crowd there's a certain moment when you kind of click into a trance-like state and you just kind of go with it. I love getting into that mode. It's transcendental.
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Jazz Improvisation means that practice is not as straightforward as it would be when you simply have a score to play.
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I think that music, or at least the kind of music that I make, benefits greatly from improvisation.
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Music is a science, it heals depression, it awakens, most people don't know, they just take music for an entertainment, something to dance to, and enjoy yourself and you go to bed and forget it tomorrow, music must never be forgotten, it's like a fountain that keeps on flowing.
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We humans, though troubled and warlike, are also the dreams, thinkers, and explorers inhabiting one achingly beautiful planet, yearning for the sublime, and capable of the magnificent.
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There's always some room for improvisation.
