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"Some days you live in pajamas, and your hair kind-of has that Albert Einstein look."

"My passionate leisure pursuit are reading, wondering and writing."

"A mask you ask? Optional I find!Masks lend appeal of a mysterious kind."

"Screw chocolate. A good steak is where it's at."

"Your relationship to food is but a reflection of your relationship to yourself, as is everything in your life."
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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."

"I record all of my music with authentic instruments in a studio before we start editing, doing many, many versions. The music shapes the film as we edit so it has an organic relationship to the content."

"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."

"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."

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

"You can learn as much about the history from reading about the present as you can vice versa, that is learning about the present through history, which is what I do for a living."

"History is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light, and archeological evidence can challenge our popular assumptions."

"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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