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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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"By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out."
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"The thing I loved about Alfred Hitchcock is that he left a lot of open ends there, a lot of clues that didn't really add up the way you think they would, and sometimes, not at all."
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"If I feel in need of sleep, I just open a book or turn on the television. Both are better than any sleeping pill."
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"When I was a kid and I bought a record, I ripped that thing open, I wanted to know who was playing what, what studio it was cut at, who was the string arranger, who was the engineer."
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"I think there are influences that you open the door to, and influences that come under the door."
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"He can't decide whether to leave his visor half open or half closed."
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"A lot of young directors, they're not confident; they're not open to the emotional level of the scene."
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"I'm pretty much an open book."
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"In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary."
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"If it wasn't for Abe Lincoln, I'd still be on the open market."
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"He was a silly guy. Out - do the other guy. That was his effort at all times."
Effort
"Everybody that you could name would join in our audiences from, Laguardia on down. Everybody came. Everybody came to the Cotton Club."
Audience
"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."
Time
"My audience was my life. What I did and how I did it, was all for my audience."
Life
"Everybody did something. It was very entertaining. We had a lot of fun. Lot of fun. And there was no segregation, that I could see. I never saw any."
Fun
"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
"90%, 100% are going there to hear the singing. The story is another thing. Nobody's interested in the story. Happiness is happiness."
Happiness
"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
"You don't think it was because a white man wrote it, a black man wrote it, a green man wrote it. What - doesn't make a difference! Doesn't make a difference. I think he did a good job."
Difference
"What opera isn't violent? Two things happen, violence and love. And other than that, name something else. You can't."
Love
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