Miles Davis Quotes
If somebody told me I only had an hour to live, I'd spend it choking a white man. I'd do it nice and slow.
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I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot.
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I would like 'I Dream of Genie' powers.
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I actually like snakes! When I was young, I was a boy scout nature camp counselor, and one of our projects was collecting snakes and creating an environment for them, so I'm quite familiar with snakes and think they're fantastic creatures.
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'The Fifth Gospel' is set entirely inside the Vatican and told from the perspective of a Catholic priest. I'm not Catholic myself, yet authenticity and factual accuracy are very important to me, so the novel required an enormous amount of research.
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In theatre, you've got to make the connect with your audience in the first three minutes. If you haven't, you know you've almost lost them.
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I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.
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I met Bill Clinton; he's a very nice guy. Yeah, Bill Clinton's cool.
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I'm not being outspoken or pro or con abortion.
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I've been in a gym probably nine days of my life.
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Living in that childish wonder is a most beautiful feeling – I can so well remember it. There was always something more – behind and beyond everything – to me, the golden spectacles were very, very big.
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You have to go where the good writing is.
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In the fifth grade I discovered something I could do better than the other kids. One day, the teacher set up a bunch of chairs, and she had everyone run to the chairs and back while she timed us. I had the fastest time in the whole school!
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I admire people who destroy themselves.
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Even when there are adverse circumstances, I try to do my job. And I usually do.
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Many writers who have had to deal with the subject of atrocity can't face it head-on.
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I just write songs and hope that they do well. I'm sure there is some pressure from someone at the label, but I'd rather keep away from it.
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Capitalism attacks and destroys all the finer sentiments of the human heart; it ruthlessly sweeps away old traditions and ideas opposed to its progress, and it exploits and corrupts those things once held sacred.
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I must work harder to achieve my goal of not seeking approval from those whose approval I'm not even sure is important to me.
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Too often critics seem more intent on seeking new ways to alter Congress than to truly learn how it functions. They might well profit from the advice of Thomas Huxley, who said a century ago: Sit down before facts as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notionor you shall learn nothing.
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To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.
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Take all the swift advantage of the hours.
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I see nothing for the treatment of my misery but the melancholy and very local palliative of articulate art.
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The pleasure of satisfying a savage instinct, undomesticated by the ego, is uncomparably much more intense than the one of satisfying a tamed instinct. The reason is becoming the enemy that prevents us from a lot of possibilities of pleasure.
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If somebody told me I only had an hour to live, I'd spend it choking a white man. I'd do it nice and slow.
