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If you listen to Louis Armstrong from 1929, you will never hear anything better than that really, and you will never hear anything more free than that.
When I am writing a story it feels as real as the life I am experiencing off the page. It's an emotional illusion, I guess.
Josephine Baker, Dancer (1906) |
Chuck Barris, Producer (1929) |
Roscoe Bartlett, Politician (1926) |
Jefferson Davis, Leader (1808) |
Allen Ginsberg, Poet (1926) |
Hale Irwin, Athlete (1945) |
Kelly Jones, Musician (1974) |
Kerry King, Musician (1964) |
Bert Lance, Politician (1931) |
William Harvey, Scientist (1657) |
Pope John XXIII, Clergyman (1963) |
Franz Kafka, Novelist (1924) |
Raj Kapoor, Actor (1988) |
Ayatollah Khomeini, Statesman (1989) |