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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Baseball players practice, runners practice, so how can you practice being funny? You get up onstage. You train as an improviser, playing make-believe, using the vernacular of improvisation, saying 'yes and' to other people's ideas, making statements.
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Even though the music I make gathers influences from all over the place, I feel that the core of what I do comes from the jazz tradition. In terms of improvisation, interaction, feel and overall concept, Jazz is my main source of information and inspiration.
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Self-justification - that is, claiming one's innocence and thus in the final analysis blaming God - is an inheritance we have received from Adam and Eve. Even the worst criminals have this urge to exonerate themselves. They claim innocence in the face of the most heinous crimes. Prison chaplains write that there is no place like prison to find so many self-righteous people, maintaining that they are actually innocent. They think they have been imprisoned unjustly. We human beings have an excuse for everything and thus we see no reason why we should repent and turn from our ways. If we think we are in the right, that we have good reason to justify ourselves and say that we are not guilty, why should we repent?
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There's always some room for improvisation.
