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 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 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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In the arts they call it plagiarism, in business they call it competition.
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Some things in life are not pleasant but they have to be done. For instance, German and maths.
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It was a huge zoo, spread over numberless acres, big enough to require a train to explore it, though it seemed to get smaler as I grew older, train included. Now it's so small it fits in my head.
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Once you reach your fifties, you have to stop being interested in the present and write only on Elizabethan poets.
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People pay a lot of money to go see shows now, they don't wanna know about your technical problems, or if you're not feeling good, they don't wanna know we have a glitch. It's their night, you better do something to earn that money.
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A lot of things in 'Parents' I find very truthful.
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So I have cultivated the vast garden of human experience which is history, without troubling myself overmuch about laws, essential first causes, or how it is all coming out.
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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.
