"Jazz is so incestuous that it's starting to kill itself."

-- Branford Marsalis

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“I started to read my first book at about the age of six. I started to write a book simultaneously. Not to compete, just to augment. And that's how one starts. Or I started.”
“It's very difficult for you to speak out against your child, someone that's in your family. You can have an argument with them, but you can't condemn them. You can't cast them out, because God has not done that to us. We cannot do that to anybody else.”
“I was an art history major, but never specifically contemporary. I would say where I really stopped were the abstract expressionists in the New York school.”
“Baseball is going to end some day. I realize that as soon as you retire you know, people forget about you in this game fast! There's the next young guy coming up that's always better than you. So, for me, it's just about using baseball as a platform to do a lot of things.”

Source : Source: www.cbn.com
“I want you to be with me in the dark. To hold me. To keep loving me. To help me when I get scared. To come right to the edge and see what's there.”

Source : Jenny Downham (2007). “Before I Die”, David Fickling Books
“Life is one long struggle in the dark.”

Source : Titus Lucretius Carus (1937). “Lucretius, de rerum natura”
“I don't make movies because I think audiences will want to go see them.”
“Man becomes virtually an automaton in the loss of his individuality and responsibility. He is the harp of a thousand strings played upon by a divine hand, but not a man!”

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