Chuck Eddy Quotes
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I've been married over 50 years of my life.
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The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done. I try to make sure that I don't repeat my music.
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My whole reason for creating a network is literally to bring little pieces of light. It's to continue to spread little pieces of light in the world, to illuminate the possibility of the human spirit.
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I knew Jimmy Dean. He tested for 'Battle Cry'. Paul Newman tested for 'Battle Cry'. I did nine tests to finally get that role.
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I never considered the working class anything other than something to get out of.
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I did an 'Our Town' in San Diego in the seventies with amateurs that I can tear up just thinking about.
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I had to quit ballet because it felt like a part of me was dying inside.
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'Macbeth' was a very lucky play for me.
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The older I get the more of my mother I see in myself.
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People trash talk me.
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If you fire people, you fire customers.
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The Silverlake Conservatory is a nonprofit music school in Los Angeles where we teach music, mostly to kids, but to people of all ages - people who are old, people with beards, all kinds of people.
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If we have the intent to use the military only when needed, then that also becomes, then, therefore, a credible deterrent.
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The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
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The movie I've watched a million times is 'A Face in the Crowd,' directed by Elia Kazan, starring Andy Griffith and Patricia Neal. I first saw this movie, I guess I was in my early 20s. I'd never heard of it, and somebody told me about it, and I watched it and was just completely jaw-droppingly shocked at how current it was.
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I was raised on a ranch in Wyoming, and I've been riding horses most of my life.
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Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart.
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Pretty much everyone on my iPod, I'd like to be friends with. But I'd say that the main two that I'd love to get into a conversation with are Werner Herzog and Graham Hancock.
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Small business people have gotten us out of nearly all modern recessions - not by waiting for others to fix things or turning to government, but rather by applying leadership, inventiveness, creativity and originality.
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If you must know, my parents came from pretty hardscrabble backgrounds in the southern Midwest. I certainly didn't grow up poor, but I did spend my 20s and early 30s juggling temp jobs and choking on massive student-loan debt.
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All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks, in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.
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I have made many serious statements - I just can't remember any of them. I guess they mustn't have been very important.
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I've always loved short stories. Even before I was a writer I was reading short stories - there were certain writers where I just felt like they could do in a short story what so many writers needed a whole novel to do, and that was really inspiring to me. Alice Munro, I felt that way about from an early time. Grace Paley.
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Critics should stick to their convictions.
