"Like a layer on a pearl, you can't specifically identify the irritant, the moment of the irritant, but at the end of the day, you know you have a pearl."

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"Like a layer on a pearl, you can't specifically identify the irritant, the moment of the irritant, but at the end of the day, you know you have a pearl."

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"What's in a name? The accumulation of reputations from all who've owned it before you."

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"Do not allow yourself to be pulled into the role of embracing victimship as some sort of badge of honor to wear or flash around at any opportunity."

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"You couldn't escape the pointy hat, though. There was nothing magical about a pointy hat except that it said that the woman underneath it was a witch. People paid attention to a pointy hat."

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"Forms come and go. You, the quantum non-entity behind your human identity, comes nor goes."

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"Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them."

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"The genius of our country is improvisation, and jazz reflects that. It's our great contribution to the arts."

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"You need, as a historian, essential triangulation from your subject and the only way you get that triangulation is through time."

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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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"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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"Louis Armstrong is quite simply the most important person in American music. He is to 20th century music (I did not say jazz) what Einstein is to physics."

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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."

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