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"In Goodfellas they have this one scene where the camera goes down some steps and walks through a kitchen into a restaurant and the critics were all over this as evidence of the genius of Scorsese and Scorsese is a genius."
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"The genius of the American system is that through freedom we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people."
"Genius is a word too often tossed around in musical circles."
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