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"Television has some lovely aspects to it - and some ghastly aspects - but the theater itself was a wonderful invention."
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"We are not a Zappa cover band. We only play Frank's songs that were recorded by the Mothers of Invention and I think a lot of those songs were complex."
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"Mothers are the necessity of invention."
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"And the invention of transformations of certain figures has become the most important in musical composition."
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"The digital camera is a great invention because it allows us to reminisce. Instantly."
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"It is obvious that anything a scientist discovers or invents is based on previous discoveries and inventions. The same applies to the arts."
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"Most of them are doomed to rapid extinction, but a few may make evolutionary inventions, such as physiological, ecological, or behavioral innovations that give these species improved competitive potential."
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"Melodic invention is one of the surest signs of a divine gift."
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"An invention has to make sense in the world it finishes in, not in the world it started."
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"Television has some lovely aspects to it - and some ghastly aspects - but the theater itself was a wonderful invention."
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"As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality."
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"I went to acting school, but only for nine months. If you're an actor, you know, don't really need to learn how to do it."
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"And in the Second World War, you didn't just read about it in the newspapers because you weren't allowed to read it in the newspapers. It was all censored, you know? So nobody knew what we were doing."
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"They call it The New Avengers but it's really the old Avengers with new people except for me, looking rather fat and rather old."
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"The radio even weren't allowed to say there was a Holocaust and people were being killed right, left and center in these terrible camps."
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"Well, you know, I was through the whole of the Second World War and saw all my friends killed."
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"I like most of the Humphrey Bogart movies because they had to act then, and they acted very well. Edward G. Robinson is probably the best actor I've ever seen on the movies."
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"Accomplishment is such a patronizing, dangerous word, isn't it? I haven't really accomplished anything. The most accomplished thing I've done is to have lived this long - 81."
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"Until the year 1967, it was a crime, for which you could be put in prison, to make homosexual love to someone in your own house. If they came in and caught you at it, you could be put into prison. This has changed - I'm talking about England, incidentally."
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"The only danger about websites, you know, is people who remember something you did or said thirty or forty years ago, and bring it up against you, so you're going for a job and you don't get it."
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"But I did an awful lot of work in Hollywood, and in New York for that matter."
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