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"The fact of the matter is, you don't give up what's natural. Anything I've fantasized about, I've done."
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"I think it was the fact that I liked it so much that made the writing just come out of me automatically."
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"You're not a historian, but most historians will tell you that they make very discrete judgment as to what facts to omit in order to make their book into some shape, some length that can be managed."
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"Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders."
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"It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic."
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"There's one more terrifying fact about old people: I'm going to be one soon."
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"When we first started playing we did a lot of rehearsing. We used to write out everything. In fact, that's the way everybody rehearses: we play the tunes and improvise."
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"I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true."
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"The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell."
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"I think that the mere fact that I'm doing it ought to inspire someone. In junior high school the counselor suggested that I focus on wood shop and metal shop."
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"I just cash in on the fact that I'm good looking, and I've got a nice figure and girls like me."
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"Love is a special word, and I use it only when I mean it. You say the word too much and it becomes cheap."
Love
"Music is my life, professionally, for nearly 60 years. To be recognized by the academy is still the highest honor."
Music
"I did it to myself. It wasn't society... it wasn't a pusher, it wasn't being blind or being black or being poor. It was all my doing."
Society
"Learning to read music in Braille and play by ear helped me develop a damn good memory."
Music
"There's nothing written in the Bible, Old or New testament, that says, "If you believe in Me, you ain't going to have no troubles.""
Bible
"There are many spokes on the wheel of life. First, we're here to explore new possibilities."
Life
"My version of "Georgia" became the state song of Georgia. That was a big thing for me, man. It really touched me. Here is a state that used to lynch people like me suddenly declaring my version of a song as its state song. That is touching."
People
"What is a soul? It's like electricity - we don't really know what it is, but it's a force that can light a room."
Soul
"Music's been around a long time, and there's going to be music long after Ray Charles is dead. I just want to make my mark, leave something musically good behind. If it's a big record, that's the frosting on the cake, but music's the main meal."
Music
"I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me-like food or water."
Food
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