Archie Shepp Quotes

In America, for a brief time, people who followed Coltrane were studied and considered important, but it didn't last long. The result is that the kind of music I played in the '60's is completely dismissed in this country as a wrong turn, a suicidal effort.

Archie Shepp

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If somebody writes a review of a dry cleaner, that piece of content is not wildly viral. It's not like a viral video that can spread across the world in a matter of minutes, so as a result, each market is almost an island unto itself.

Jeremy Stoppelman

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It's a lucky life to be a playwright.

John Guare

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I was interested in getting courtroom experience. When I was a young lawyer, the only way I could get real courtroom experience was in the criminal law field.

Robert Shapiro

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You always have some trans girl saying, 'Oh, they were just being funny! They aren't really transphobic,' Just like you will always have some black folks defending some white person for using the 'N' word because they are 'cool.'

Angelica Ross

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It's like trying to pin down a kangaroo on a trampoline.

Sid Waddell

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I know of no wars started by anyone to impose lack of religion on someone else. We have lethal Sunni v Shia, Catholic against Protestant, but no agnostic suicide bombers attack crowded atheist pubs.

Simon Hoggart

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I'm a human being. I feel all emotions. I'm not just happy all the time. Sometimes, I'm sad and feel the blues. Sometimes I even want to feel the blues. Sometimes, you want to feel down.

Tracy Morgan

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I don't really say much about reviewers. It's a very tough job to get all of the depth of a movie all at once.

Roland Joffe

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After we become literate, we literally 'think differently' about language: images of brain activation between literate and nonliterate humans bear this out.

Maryanne Wolf

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In a nutshell, directing 'The Gift' was all about understanding how the complex machine that is 'Game of Thrones' works.

Miguel Sapochnik

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With 'Puddle Cruiser,' the first 15 minutes are the weakest. When you're total unknowns and you have a weak opening, it's a real problem. At some screenings, we'd see the odd walkout before the movie even got going. But to counteract that, we'd do sketches before the show to introduce the film.

Jay Chandrasekhar

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A good film to me is like lightning in a bottle.

Don Scardino

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