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"Louis Armstrong, who learned to be in exquisite dress, came from the bottom, and he's not a trash can."
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"An Edwardian lady in full dress was a wonder to behold, and her preparations for viewing were awesome."
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"Is there anything in the world more annoyingly creepy than an unspoken dress code?"
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"A blond in a red dress can do without introductions - but not without a bodyguard."
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"Japanese naval officers in dress whites are frequent guests at Pearl Harbor's officers' mess and are very polite. They always were. Except, of course, for that little interval there between 1941 and 1945."
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"If Broadway shows charge preview prices while the cast is in dress rehearsal, why should restaurants charge full price when their dining room and kitchen staffs are still practicing?"
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"If you want someone to feel warm, you dress them in a warm color and put a warm light on them and you get the picture. Sometimes, all that needs pushing a little bit to help tell the story."
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"Gossip is just news running ahead of itself in a red satin dress."
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"I'm shy. I can go on a trip for days and not go because I won't sit on a toilet seat on a plane. I'm certainly not going to go on somebody's lawn. Could you imagine, in a cocktail dress?"
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"Don't ever humiliate a man. If you're gonna have to dress him out, you take him aside and do it that way. That's the one thing I don't like about Hollywood: They go in for public humiliation. You shouldn't do that to a man."
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"I'm always the girl at the party who, within five minutes, has taken my heels off, hitched up my dress in my knickers, and probably spilt drink down my cleavage."
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"You can meet a young person who goes to school and is really enthusiastic, but if a sufficiently strong personality convinces them that this is a waste of time, that person might flunk out."
Time
"I wanted to get to that aesthetic proposition that comes out of learning the human elements of a world, so that those notes and rhythms mean something to you besides just the academic way in which they fall in place."
Learning
"People don't really think other people are the same."
People
"I also wanted to do something that I hadn't really seen in almost any black novels, which was a complex love story in which both people were extremely intelligent and talented and understood a lot of things and were still at odds getting it together."
Love
"The high point of civilization is that you can hate me and I can hate you but we develop an etiquette that allows us to deal with each other because if we acted solely upon our impulse we'd probably go to war."
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"When people conclude that all is futile, then the absurd becomes the norm."
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"When you're artistic director of a program, you present the music you want to present."
Music
"Our democratic richness arrives when we're able to comprehend our collective humanity accurately."
Humanity
"Louis Armstrong, who learned to be in exquisite dress, came from the bottom, and he's not a trash can."
Dress
"Rap actually comes out of punk rock, not black music."
Music
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