"We don't play to be seen. I'm addicted to music, not audiences."

-- Miles Davis

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“Courage combined with integrity is the foundation of character.”
“I never expect anything. I am always amazed at why anybody goes to any movie or why anybody doesn't go to any movie. Any movie you make, you make it because you're hoping somebody wants to see it, but you never know.”
“I make a composition with a white and a black, and make adjustments when the white has become a paper and the black a shadow.”
“Feed the world. Let them know it's Christmas time again.”

Source : "Do They Know It's Christmas?" (song) (1984).
“Sometimes I think it is ... frustration with life as it is lived day to day that compels me to write such long letters to people who seldom reply in kind, if indeed they reply at all. Somehow by compressing and editing the events of my life, I infuse them with a dramatic intensity totally lacking at the time, but oddly enough I find that years later what I remember is not the event as I lived it but as I described it in a letter.”

Source : Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey (1998). “A Woman of Independent Means”, p.168, Penguin
“Vegetarians are hotter then meat eaters.”
“Writing should be meaningful for children, Y an intrinsic need should be aroused in them, and Y writing should be incorporated into a task that is necessary and relevant.”
“Being a father, well, I don't know if this is a change, but it makes me want to get out of here faster. Get off the clock. Just 'cause the baby is my reason for living, my reason for coming to work.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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