Ornette Coleman Quotes
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I learn something in the interviews from time to time.
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I'm either enjoying myself or I'm not. And if I'm not enjoying myself, something's gone terribly wrong.
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Well if somebody's giving me a script, I'll consider it. But it's not something I'm chasing.
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One of the biggest mistakes people make is to think that what you need to write a novel is imagination, creativity and a facility with words. Yes, you need all those things, but a novel is a highly complex organism that needs to be dealt with in quite a logical manner.
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I actually found not having a routine was inspiration.
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Cynicism is something which has become symbolic of imperial policy.
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Feminism remains something that needs to be explained to people.
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I've found that musical theater is my passion.
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I like artists who have something to say, not wallpaper.
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I'm potentially worth a lot of money, but I've got to go and make something that's worth a lot of money.
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The main thing is to know something and to say it.
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Proclaiming a sexual preference is something that straight men never really have to bother with.
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While I deeply admire actors who deeply prepare, it's just not something I do.
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I think sci-fi films have become rather bleak, and understandably so - I think we've made some big mistakes globally with how we're developing, and we deal with that guilt by creating these very dystopian futures in films.
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I've never been someone that was sort of blessed with an innate talent of just being able to do things. I had to work at it and learn from mistakes.
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They can say I have an opinion about something.
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It's tough, but you learn your lesson from all the mistakes you make.
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There are days when I still want to be able to do what I want when I want, but there's also something wonderful about being secure.
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By the time Africa is developed, it will be the wonderland of the world, 'cause it will be able to make use of all the mistakes of other nations. But it nah go just drop out of the sky. So we have to put in work.
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We are not perfect. We make mistakes. We screw up but then we forgive and move forward.
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Success is a high, but the way up is hard, and you have to give your all.
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'Menace II Society' itself was a groundbreaking film. It's definitely going to go in the vaults of classics in all of cinema. The Hughes Brothers created an incredible project. Just gave the world something a little different than what we had seen in previous films in that same genre.
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The reason societies with democratic governments are better places to live in than their alternatives isn't because of some goodness intrinsic to democracy, but because its hopeless inefficiency helps blunt the basic potential for evil.
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It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something.
