"By its very nature, no one person can ever be the center of jazz."

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"By its very nature, no one person can ever be the center of jazz."

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"All art is but imitation of nature."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

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"Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

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"Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space."

Robert Frost, American Poet

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"What branch does not have its leaves and which twig will not have its flowers?"

Sorin Cerin, Romanian Philosopher

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"Can I tell from the twilight from which the world is built that I am a sunrise in this life?"

Sorin Cerin, Romanian Philosopher

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"The sun had burned through and the day had gone from dull to dazzling, yet in the west blask-satin thunderheads continued to stack up. It was as if night has burst a blood-vessel in the sky over there."

Stephen King, American Author

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"To his way of thinking, the only thing more natural than death was sex."

Stephen King, American Author

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"We ran as if to meet the moon."

Robert Frost, American Poet

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"Why is it that night falls, instead of rising, like the dawn? Yet if you look east, at sunset, you can see night rising, not falling; darkness lifting into the sky, up from the horizon..."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

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"There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

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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."

Family

"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."

Focus

"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

"I think my expectations for myself are much more severe and much more direct. You can't work on a film for six years without being your own toughest critic. So you can't really be distracted by the expectations based on your previous performance."

Work

"You need, as a historian, essential triangulation from your subject and the only way you get that triangulation is through time."

Time

"To say that an artist sells out means that an artist is making a conscious choice to compromise his music, to to weaken his music for the sake of commercial gain."

Music

"I am passionately interested in understanding how my country works. And if you want to know about this thing called the United States of America you have to know about the Civil War."

War

"I enjoy total creative control right now. Nobody tells me to make it longer, shorter, better, sexier, more violent, whatever."

Control

"I treat the photograph as a work of great complexity in which you can find drama. Add to that a careful composition of landscapes, live photography, the right music and interviews with people, and it becomes a style."

Music

"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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