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" If I told my 14-year-old self that I'd be hanging out with Keith Richards talking about records, my head would've exploded. "
Morgan Neville
Out
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Self
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" I think, in the West, we often discount the arts as nice but not that important. Certainly in America when we cut funding for schools, the arts are the first programs to go. But the arts built the things we need more than anything else: collaboration and co-operation and creativity. "
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" The presidential and vice-presidential debates are those rare moments when people come together, but to even call them debates is a stretch because they're played by such negotiated rules, and they're so over-rehearsed. "
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" I love documentaries. I love the format. I've been doing them for a long time. "
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" Sometimes we have our perfect foils, or you can call them their bete noir: the person who brings out both the best and the worst in you because you disagree with them so completely. Yet, you understand and respect them enough to give it your all. "
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" How often do we make films just celebrating people that do a good job, work altruistically, and are in it just for the sake of the love and not the business? "
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" I love Memphis, and just being there affects one's outlook. "
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" Everyone feels entitled to their own facts. "
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Everyone
Entitled
" To be a backup singer, you have to walk into any situation and just be perfect from the first take to the 50th take. "
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" Success and singing is not synonymous. "
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" So much of what we get on our news debate shows is really people spinning one way or the other, giving their talking points one way or the other. "
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