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"I have made all my films for my children with the exception of my first film because my oldest daughter wasn't born when I was making the film about the Brooklyn Bridge."
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"Never give up your wife, husband, children and families. Believe that people can change. Give others opportunity to change."
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"Blessed is the womb that born you."
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"Until now, you have always lived your life alone. Every decision you've made has been for you and you alone. Now, and for the rest of your days, your life will be tied to another's. Every decision you make will be for both of you. What one does affects the other. You are a family, a team inseparable and unbreakable."
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"A rubber plant is just about the ideal family."
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"Father, I know you will hear me, I will speak."
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"When we sat down on the couch again, you curled up against my side, like you used to when you were a tod."
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"Children are angels."
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"I was sixteen and my mother was about to throw me out of the house forever, for breaking a very big rule, even bigger than the forbidden books. The rule was not just No Sex, but definitely No Sex With Your Own Sex."
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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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"Jazz is a very accurate, curiously accurate accompaniment to 20th century America."
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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."
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"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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"History is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light, and archeological evidence can challenge our popular assumptions."
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