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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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Robert Bresson: One forgets too...

Robert Bresson: One forgets too...

One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his...

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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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Judy Collins: I sang in...

Judy Collins: I sang in...

I sang in the coffee houses . . . in the early 60's with no idea of success in terms of records or television. I just...

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Judy Collins: I am glad...

Judy Collins: I am glad...

I am glad so many women singers are being heard in music today. It is healthy for music . . . healthy because it means...

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Joan Baez: Hypothetical questions get...

Joan Baez: Hypothetical questions get...

Hypothetical questions get hypothetical answers.

Source: Daybreak, 1966.
-- Joan...

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Joan Baez: As long as...

Joan Baez: As long as...

As long as one keeps searching, the answers come.

Source: In Words of Women...

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Joan Baez: Instead of getting...

Joan Baez: Instead of getting...

Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try to give their best qualities to men -- bring...

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Joan Baez: You don't get...

Joan Baez: You don't get...

You don't get to choose how you are going to die or when. You can only decide how you're going to...

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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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Jack Handey Deep Thoughts: To me, truth...

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts: To me, truth...

To me, truth is not some vague, foggy notion. Truth is real. And, at the same time, unreal. Fiction and fact and...

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Jane Wagner: I personally think...

Jane Wagner: I personally think...

I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.

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Robert Orben: It may be...

Robert Orben: It may be...

It may be the way the cookie crumbles on Madison Avenue, but in Honk Kong it's the way the egg...

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Max Roach: My point is...

Max Roach: My point is...

My point is that we much decolonize our minds and re-name and re-define ourselves . . . In all respects, culturally,...

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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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Miles Davis: The thing to...

Miles Davis: The thing to...

The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.

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John Coltrane: All a musician...

John Coltrane: All a musician...

All a musician can do is to get closer to the sources of nature, and so feel that he is in communion with the natural...

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John Coltrane: I never even...

John Coltrane: I never even...

I never even thought about whether or not they understand what I'm doing . . . the emotional reaction is all that...

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Count Basie: I decided that...

Count Basie: I decided that...

I decided that I would be one of the biggest new names; and I actually had some little fancy business cards printed up...

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