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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While I have served in public office for 30 years, my professional training is as a pharmacist, not a lawyer or an accountant.
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I don't believe in the afterlife.
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There's always some room for improvisation.
