"One of the things I really like about Ford's films is how there is always a focus on the way characters live, and not just the male heroes."

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"One of the things I really like about Ford's films is how there is always a focus on the way characters live, and not just the male heroes."

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"Don't invest everything in another man's calling."

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"When the mind is steady, it will not create any vibrations, and therefore one will get the result. Along with that, if there is purity of chit, then one will surely be able to get his work done."

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"Everything you need comes into focus when you abandon the unneeded."

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"Fix your gazes on the invisible."

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"Stay focused! Know where you are heading towards in life with your life! People going somewhere don't just go anywhere!"

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"You gotta make it a priority to make your priorities a priority."

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"Focus on the win and you lose the battle, focus on the battle and you win."

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"A busy life is not necessarily an effective life."

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"There are so many things and people craving your attention such that you could so easily forget that you have a purpose to fulfill within a specified time on the earth."

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"I think the problem with a lot of the fusion music is that it's extremely predictable, it's a rock rhythm and the solos all play the same stuff and they play it over and over again and there's a certain musical virtuosity involved in it."

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"I don't use composers. I research music the way I research the photographs or the facts in my scripts."

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"The stories from 1975 on are not finished and there is no resolve. I could spend 50 hours on the last 25 years of jazz and still not do it justice."

Lifestyle

"A jazz beat is a dynamic changing rhythm."

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"I subscribe to William Faulkner's' view that history is not just about what we were before but who we are now."

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"In a sense I've made the same film over and over again. In all of them I've asked, 'Who are we as Americans?"

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"Wynton told us that Miles sold out, just wanted to make more money, just wanted to sell more records. I don't believe that Miles sold out but I'm not in a position to say."

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"I never, ever want to apologize for a film. If it's bad I'll say it's my fault. And that's what I can say so far in all the films that I've done, that if you don't like it, it's entirely my fault."

Mistake

"I read cover to cover every jazz publication that I could and in the New York Times, every single day reading their jazz reviews even though I didn't put them in the films. I wanted to know what is going on."

Lifestyle

"You know, you meet some people, and do a lot of interviews, and you come across a Buck O'Neill and you know you are going to know him for the rest of your life. The same thing happened with Curt Flood."

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