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Oliver Stone: [F]ilm is distinctive...

Oliver Stone: [F]ilm is distinctive...

[F]ilm is distinctive because of its nature, of its being able to cut through time with editing. Montage can create a...

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John Huston: What to do...

John Huston: What to do...

What to do when inspiration doesn't come: Be careful not to spook, get the wind up, force things into position. You...

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Stanley Kubrick: If you can...

Stanley Kubrick: If you can...

If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been...

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Stanley Kubrick: The great nations...

Stanley Kubrick: The great nations...

The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like...

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Judy Collins: This is a...

Judy Collins: This is a...

This is a crazy culture. Absolutely nutty. You see it reflected everywhere you look, the desperate search -- who are...

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Joan Baez: The point on...

Joan Baez: The point on...

The point on nonviolence is to build a floor, a strong new floor, beneath which we can no longer...

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Woody Guthrie: If a day...

Woody Guthrie: If a day...

If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a...

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Sonny Rollins: How ironic that...

Sonny Rollins: How ironic that...

How ironic that the Negro, who more than any other people can claim America's culture as his own, is being persecuted...

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Miles Davis: I'm always thinking...

Miles Davis: I'm always thinking...

I'm always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning . . . Every day I find something...

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Ella Fitzgerald: Just don't give...

Ella Fitzgerald: Just don't give...

Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there's love and inspiration, I don't think you can...

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Jelly Roll Morton: In 1908 Handy...

Jelly Roll Morton: In 1908 Handy...

In 1908 Handy didn't know anything about the blues and he doesn't know anything about jazz and stomps to this day . ....

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Nina Simone: Everything that happened...

Nina Simone: Everything that happened...

Everything that happened to me as a child involved music. It was part of everyday life, as automatic as...

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Eleanor Holmes Norton: On the road...

Eleanor Holmes Norton: On the road...

On the road to equality there is no better place for blacks to detour around American values than in foregoing its...

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Henry Lewis Stimson: If you are...

Henry Lewis Stimson: If you are...

If you are going to try to go to war, or to prepare for war, in a capitalist country, you have got to let business...

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Ivy Baker Priest: Any woman who...

Ivy Baker Priest: Any woman who...

Any woman who has a career and a family automatically develops something in the way of two personalities, like two...

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Jerry Brown: It doesn't matter...

Jerry Brown: It doesn't matter...

It doesn't matter what I say as long as I sound different from other politicians.

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Mary Frances Berry: Civil Rights opened...

Mary Frances Berry: Civil Rights opened...

Civil Rights opened the windows. When you open the windows, it does not mean that everybody will get through. We must...

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Ramsey Clark: Turbulence is life...

Ramsey Clark: Turbulence is life...

Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

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James Callaghan: A lie can...

James Callaghan: A lie can...

A lie can be halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on.

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Clement Attlee: I think the...

Clement Attlee: I think the...

I think the British have the distinction above all other nations of being able to put new wine into old bottles...

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