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“I read novels but I also read the Bible. And study it, you know? And the more I learn, the more excited I get.”
Source : "Johnny Cash: 'I was evil. I really was' - a classic interview from the vaults". Interview with Philip Norman, www.theguardian.com. February 28, 2012. 
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“It is not so much the major events as the small day-to-day decisions that map the course of our living. . . Our lives are, in reality, the sum total of our seemingly unimportant decisions and of our capacity to live by those decisions.”
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“Light is a powerful substance. We have a primal connection to it. But, for something so powerful, situations for its felt presence are fragile . . . I like to work with it so that you feel it physically, so you feel the presence of light inhabiting a space.”
Source : James Turrell, Julia Brown, Craig E. Adcock, Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, Calif.) (1985). “Occluded front, James Turrell”, Lapis Pr
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“We have gone through everything as a nation - partition, dictatorship, and even anarchy.”
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“When they learn of Shakespeare and Goethe, we must teach them of Pushkin and Dumas. . . . Whatever the white man has done, we have done, and often better.”
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“If you want me to play only the notes without any specific dynamics, I will never make one mistake.”
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“It has taken a long time for me to be able to really just be in front of the camera.”
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“I don't think that artists of any kind would or could sacrifice their artistic freedom by being more responsible with their influence on people, especially young people.”
