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“All you're trying to do in an improvisation is get as much material as possible for the editing room.”
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“At dinner parties I sit below the salt now. There are a lot of interesting people there.”
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“There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.”
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“With the first step, the number of shapes the walk might take is infinite, but then the walk begins to define itself as it goes along, though freedom remains total with each step: any tempting side road can be turned into an impulse, or any wild patch of woods can be explored. The pattern of the walk is to come true, is to be recognized, discovered.”
Source : A. R. Ammons (1996). “Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues”, Univ of Michigan Pr
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“I grew up in Canada and was a huge Spider-Man fan, and never thought of Spider-Man as an American hero.”
Source : "From Degrassi High To Manhattan: Jake Epstein Dons The Spidey Suit". Interview with Louis Peitzman, www.buzzfeed.com. December 12, 2012.
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“Whether we fail or not, we shall not be kept from continuing our mission by those who claim it can't be done. ...Indeed the whole of agricultural and livestock science and even human medicine, if sound, is merely the business of discovering certain natural patterns already in existence, putting together the various pieces and discovering their relationship to the whole universe; indeed such a process is science itself”
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“I must absorb everything while I'm still singing and step onto the stages of my many homes, and look out at the familiar surroundings, at the people who have come to hear me, to hear music.”
Source : Marilyn Horne, Jane Scovell (1983). “Marilyn Horne, my life”, Scribner
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“Sir! Sir! I'm afraid your music is just too loud!”