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Anthony Braxton Quotes

I would find myself backing away from all of the 'isms', all of the communities. I have always been able to be misused by every community But that is OK. I would rather be misused than neglected.

Anthony Braxton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality:
Birth: June 4, 1945

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Community Myself Find Always Been

The grand jury, composed of 12 eminent New Orleans citizens, heard our evidence and indicted the defendant for participation in a conspiracy to assassinate John Kennedy.

Jim Garrison

New Participation New Orleans Jury

America has a relationship with Bobby and Whitney.

Jenifer Lewis

Relationship America Whitney Bobby

Simply stated, the need for accurate intelligence and prescient analysis from CIA has never been greater than it is in 2013 - or than it will be in the coming years.

John O. Brennan

Intelligence Will Never Need Years

Plays are wonderfully different than short stories, first because it's a story that's on a stage, but there's a different sort of tension that appears on stage - you get to see your characters in a different way - like with lights.

Amy Bloom

Story Short You Lights Way See

I'm a big believer in volume. If I made three times as many movies as Stanley Kubrick, that must mean I'm three times as good.

Steven Soderbergh

Good Three Movies Mean Big Must

I didn't think you could just become a rock and roll singer.

Tom Petty

Think Rock And Roll You Rock Become

That poetry survived in its formal agencies finally, and that prose survived to get something said.

Robert Creeley

Poetry Said Something Get Finally

I look at 'Straw Dogs' as a very imperfect movie. It's a little bit slow, and its themes are a little bit murky.

Rod Lurie

Slow Look Dogs Little Straw Movie

My experience in the music industry made me very thick-skinned. Your art is something very personal and there's never a shortage of critics when it comes to art.

Romany Malco

Music Art Experience Me Personal

Racism is a very insidious thing. It's dangerous to the psyche, to mind and body. It erodes the self-confidence. And I don't know how we get through it.

Ruby Dee

Racism Mind Self-Confidence Body Get

My first job was to run a concessions cart. Later, I found a position at the Pacific Film Archive. Thus began a long series of jobs, each one slightly better than the last, that continued for a decade, until I sold my first novel, and still goes on, even now.

Mona Simpson

Job Better Long Now Run First

Coming back to Dinosaur Jr. and actually writing songs for the band was really intense for me.

Lou Barlow

Me Writing Back Band Dinosaur Songs