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"It's very difficult to photograph an opera. And they messed up on it. It just wasn't there. And I don't blame the Gershwins for taking it away. Of course, if they had gotten the original company to have done it, it would have been very good."
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"You think that if you blame, you will then be free of those problems, but blame cements you to your problems."
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"Maybe it ain't about others' mistakes,but only your need for someone to blame."
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"That wasn't any act of God. That was an act of pure human fuckery."
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"Blame is just a lazy person's way of making sense of chaos."
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"Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims."
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"And just so you know-that winter forest we walked into first? That was from Through the Looking Glass too. Hey, if you're going to saddle me with the blame for your overconsumption, at least get the book right."
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"Neither praise or blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to prescribe, and honestly to award. These are the true aims and duties of criticism."
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"The reason placing blame repeatedly fails to work is that I repeatedly place it on everyone else instead of where it actually belongs."
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"Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future."
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"It is more difficult to praise rightly than to blame."
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"Everybody that you could name would join in our audiences from, Laguardia on down. Everybody came. Everybody came to the Cotton Club."
Audience
"That's what George wrote! He wrote it. Why change it? There was this European company that I was speaking about awhile ago - course, didn't nobody know what Porgy was."
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"It's very difficult to photograph an opera. And they messed up on it. It just wasn't there. And I don't blame the Gershwins for taking it away. Of course, if they had gotten the original company to have done it, it would have been very good."
Blame
"He was a silly guy. Out - do the other guy. That was his effort at all times."
Effort
"A movie and a stage show are two entirely different things. A picture, you can do anything you want. Change it, cut out a scene, put in a scene, take a scene out. They don't do that on stage."
Change
"My audience was my life. What I did and how I did it, was all for my audience."
Life
"I think it was just an opera. Now, you go to opera, you expect to see and hear what the opera is. So, it was Catfish Row. It was singers. Marvelous voices. It didn't make no difference what color they were."
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"We didn't have any segregation at the Cotton Club. No. The Cotton Club was wide open, it was free."
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"What opera isn't violent? Two things happen, violence and love. And other than that, name something else. You can't."
Love
"The only credit I can give them. They synchronize wonderful. That's all. They synchronize very - you would have thought that they were actually acting, but they were synching all the time, and that's a rough job."
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