"Through improvisation, jazz teaches you about yourself. And through swing, it teaches you that other people are individuals too. It teaches you how to coordinate with them."

-- Wynton Marsalis

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“... we each have our fleeting hour.”
“I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.”

Source : "A Fashionable Life: Paloma Picasso" by Dana Thomas, www.harpersbazaar.com. February 09, 2010.
“I am, and forever will be, devastated by the gift of Audrey Hepburn before my camera. I cannot lift her to greater heights. She is already there. I can only record. I cannot interpret her. There is no going further than who she is. She has achieved in herself her ultimate portrait.”
“So, I looked up, and we were in this giant dome like a glass snowball, and Mark said that the amazing white stars were really only holes in the black glass of the dome, and when you went to heaven, the glass broke away, and there was nothing but a whole sheet of star white, which is brighter than anything but doesn't hurt your eyes. It was vast and open and thinly quiet, and I felt so small.”
“Turning your nose up at a genuine and sincere gesture of hospitality is no way to travel or to make friends around the world.”
“Some actors are supposed to be very difficult, but I've not found that to be the situation.”

Source : Interview with Adrian Wootton at the BFI, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2000.
“labels can be fun! Some people are like, "As a card-carrying bear, where I also have a little bit of fairy in me..." People have fun collaging these; there's a fun people have with their identifications. The irony of them can be lost if you're just wholeheartedly anti-identitarian.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“My time in Moscowmade a man of memade me an artistthere was a reality and a brutality of life that I think was very important, as a young American, for me to see.”

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