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I often say that if you want to really want to understand the contract of marriage, just ask anyone who has been divorced. The marriage contract is one of property rights. Or maybe you can look in the Bible to see what Adam had to say about divorce, since Eve was his second wife.

Really Understand Contract Marriage
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Movies are all about plot. Theater, even if it's story heavy, it's about ideas. Theater has to resonate in your heart in a way that movies don't.

Movies Plot Theater Ideas
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Theater is my temple and my religion and my act of faith. Strangers sit in a room together and believe together.

Theater Temple Religion Faith
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I have the world's worst taste in men, so now I simply have wonderful relationships of the friend kind, but trying to settle down with somebody? No, no, no, no, no, no, no. I'm beyond that.

Worst taste Wonderful relationships Friend kind
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You really have to soak up the culture of the people to get it right. If you're making a fiction film, it's entertainment, but you want it to be as real as possible.

Culture Entertainment Fiction Film
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You just can't take a crash course to be a tango dancer in a movie.

Course Crash Dancer Just
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You have a little bit of feeling for everyone you play.
Bit Everyone Feeling Little
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We either accept weaknesses in good people or we have to tear pages out of the Bible.

Accept Bible Either Good
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We all have a cradle-to-the-grave journey to make and, in between, what do you do? There's got to be something hereafter.

Between Got Hereafter In-Between
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I'm not good at future planning. I don't plan at all. I don't know what I'm doing tomorrow. I don't have a day planner and I don't have a diary. I completely live in the now, not in the past, not in the future.

Future planing Doing tomorrow Past
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If you're just safe about the choices you make, you don't grow

Just safe Choices Make Don't grow
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I'm still a kid. I'm like six years old. But it's just a matter of wanting to get up, it's just a big journey. I felt like when I left home that I was on a journey, and I still am.

Kid Years old Wanting Get up
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You learn more about yourself through your child, I guess.

Learn more Yourself Child
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I only do this because I'm having fun. The day I stop having fun, I'll just walk away.

Only do Having fun Walk away
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In order not to hold a frame with someone, you have to be intimidated by them.

Hold Someone Intimidated
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It can be a little distressing to have to over intellectualize yourself.

Little distressing Have Over intellectualize
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I like to do something I fear.
Do something Fear
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I like to set up obstacles and defeat them.

I like Set up Obstacles Defeat
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I'm happy without money.
Happy Without money
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I'm just not one of those naturally funny, relaxed actors who enjoy the spotlight and are so good at it.

Naturally funny Enjoyed Spotlight
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When I started to watch some of the films I'd done, I realized I was doing movies that I might not actually want to see.

Started Watch Films Movies
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I thought, I need to be more cautious about my choices - it reflects on who I am.

More cautious My choices Reflects
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I don't have that much forward planning about what I want to do next, or in the future.

Have Forward planning Future
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My life is together, both professionally and socially.

My life Professionally Socially
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Today, everything has to be made by committee, and has to have special effects, but there's always room for good films.

Always Committee Effects Everything
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To this day, I still think Lonesome Dove is my best part.

Best Best Part Day Dove
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There was nothing wrong with shouting at God.

God Nothing Shouting Wrong
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The greatest king of Israel, King David, the author of the Psalms, sent a man out to die in battle so that he could sleep with his wife.

Author Battle Could David
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The cultural contrast I saw between religions... Catholics have a lot of mediators, going through saints and Mary or whatever. Protestants in general say things to God directly.

Between Catholics Contrast Cultural
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It's no big thing, but you make big things out of little things sometimes.
Big Big Thing Little Little Things
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It's a cyclical thing. When they make one, everyone loves them. Different genres come around in succession. People always welcome the western. It's America's genre.

Always America Around Come
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I wanted to show that crime doesn't pay. If you are saved and accept the Lord, you cannot use that as an excuse to avoid punishment.

Accept Avoid Cannot Crime
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I was determined to play my horn against all odds, and I had to sacrifice a whole lot of pleasure to do so.

Against Determined Had Horn
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If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.
Ask Jazz Know Never
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All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.

Folk Folk Music Heard Horse
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I never want to be anything more than I am; what I don't have, I don't need.
Am Anything I Am More
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There is two kinds of music, the good, and the bad. I play the good kind.
Bad Good Kind Kinds
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Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them.

More Music Musicians Retire
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There are some people that if they don't know, you can't tell them.

Know People Some Some People
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We all do 'do, re, mi,' but you have got to find the other notes yourself.

Find Got Notes Other
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The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician.

Gone Important Jazz Jazz Musician
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Music is life itself. What would this world be without good music? No matter what kind it is.

Good Good Music Itself Kind
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I warm up at home. I hit the stage, I'm ready, whether it's rehearsal or anything.

Anything Hit Home Ready
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I like kissable lips. A woman's lips must say, 'Come here and kiss me, Pops.'

Come Here Kiss Like
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Well, I tell you... the first chorus, I plays the melody. The second chorus, I plays the melody round the melody, and the third chorus, I routines.

Chorus First Melody Plays
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The first time I heard Jack Teagarden on the trombone, I had goose pimples all over.

First First Time Goose Had
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I do believe that my whole success goes back to that time I was arrested as a wayward boy at the age of thirteen. Because then I had to quit running around and began to learn something. Most of all, I began to learn music.

Age Around Arrested Back
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When the other kids started calling me nicknames, I knew everything was all right. I have a pretty big mouth, so they hit on that and began calling me Gatemouth or Satchelmouth, and that Satchelmouth has stuck to me all my life, except that now it's been made into 'Satchmo' - 'Satchmo' Armstrong.

All My Life Armstrong Been Began
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Very few of the men whose names have become great in the early pioneering of jazz and of swing were trained in music at all. They were born musicians: they felt their music and played by ear and memory. That was the way it was with the great Dixieland Five.

Become Born Ear Early
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Money doesn't mean anything to me. I've made a lot of money, but I want to enjoy life and not stress myself building my bank account. I give lots away and live simply, mostly out of a suitcase in hotels. We all know that good health is much more important.

Account Anything Away Bank
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