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" As a journalist, the details always tell the story. "
Journalist
Details
Always
" Be a member of the human race. Love somebody. Change the world. "
World
Change The World
Change
" Be kind to the living. "
Living
Be Kind
Kind
" Caring is beyond race. Either people care about you, or they don't. "
You
Beyond
Caring
" Every time I see something about the Wild West, I'm reminded that our version of history may not be what really happened. "
West
See
I See
" Fiction makes your dreams come true, and, as a writer, fiction allows you to delve into the area of miracles. "
Dreams
You
Your Dreams
" First person narrative is a very effective tool but you have to know as a writer how to make it work. "
Tool
You
Know
" If you have the material it will form itself as a kind of connective tissue. "
Will
You
Tissue
" I hate to sound blase about it, but literary status is not important to me. Being happy is important to me. "
Hate
Me
Being Happy
" I just love music, and I love what music does for people. "
I Love
People
Love
" I'm not interested in food. It's just fuel. "
Just
Food
Fuel
" I'm proud of 'Miracle at St. Anna' and I loved it; there's no question in my mind it's as good as any movie that came out in 2007. "
Out
Proud
Question
" I put headlights in Ford vans. I still drive a Ford. "
Ford
Headlights
Drive
" I think heroes who are not flawed are not believable. "
Who
Think
Believable
" I wish all critics, no matter their color, were more sophisticated when it comes to the moral questions a film like 'St. Anna' is trying to raise. "
Wish
Color
Questions
" My family is my career. "
Career
Family
" People call him a terrorist, but you can use language to do many things and say many things about people, but John Brown was a hero. "
Hero
You
Say
" People don't realize you're blowing over changes, time changes, harmony, different keys. I mark a point in my solo where it's got to peak at point D I go to A, B, C D then I'm home. "
You
Over
Home
" The black church will accept anybody. "
Black
Church
Accept
" The hard part about writing about a guy like John Brown is that he was so serious, and his cause was so serious, that most of what's been written about him is really serious and, in my opinion, a little bit boring. "
Serious
Boring
Hard
" The starting point of all great jazz has got to be format, a language that you can work within that, in some ways, is much tighter than the blues or even gospel. It's all working towards the same destination - the difference being that Miles Davis flew there, and I'm still taking the subway. "
Great
You
Work
" When the great jazz and blues clubs closed - joints where the cash register rang loudly and there wasn't ESPN on TV over the bandstand, and people smoked cigarettes and drank whiskey and hollered 'Play on!' - When those places closed, I was pretty much done. "
People
Great
Blues
" When you glorify violence, then it comes back to bite you. "
You
Violence
Then
" When you're interviewing someone, even your mother - you have to sort of deal with you have to get some objective space from yourself and the person but you also have to find what's the best way to get the information from that person. "
Best
Find
Mother
" When you study history in American schools, very rarely is the name John Brown mentioned. We know who Kanye West is or Twyla Tharp or Shania Twain. "
West
Know
History
" Writing for me is cutting out the fat and getting to the meaning. "
Me
Meaning
Out
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