Dwight Yoakam Quotes
The actual work of recording a record or making a film just requires that you consciously block the time out to do that and nothing else. That's what I do.
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I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.
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If you're going to make a sequel to 'Sicario', you have to - you know, you've got to go beat a brand new path.
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I started acting when I was 5 years old. And I was pretty well known for a while. Your self-esteem and your identity start to become wrapped up in that celebrity, and when that starts to fade away, your self-esteem and your identity start to fade away with it.
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At night, I love dressing up. I love putting on an outfit.
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I volunteer with School on Wheels in Los Angeles, and I also tutor with Koreh L.A.
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery.
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I always used to watch 'The Daily Show,' and there were all these comedic geniuses there. I didn't know if I was going to be hired full time or not. At the beginning, I was sort of hired as a part time, on and off guy. When I first got hired - it was August 2006 - and I was working on and off, and they'd call me whenever.
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The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.
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Time can be an ally or an enemy. What it becomes depends entirely upon you, your goals, and your determination to use every available minute.
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Rather than waiting to restore fiscal responsibility after we pass legislation, we must work to ensure we remain committed to it as we draft legislation.
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I want to be an activist professor.
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I have no doubt that Brian May would have had a brilliant career in science had he completed his Ph.D. in 1971.
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I try not to push myself too hard, but I also need to perform and earn the results.
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I started out doing musicals.
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Having a place out of the city is a shortcut toward the mental reset I need.
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Death is not something any one of us want to dwell on, but we must all confront it at some point.
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You have good days, you have bad days. But the main thing is to grow mentally.
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It was so odd to have young kids singing 'Lovin' Feelin' because they knew it from 'Top Gun.'
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To me, the most important thing is to tell a good story. If I can do that, I think that enlightenment, respect of nature, etc. follows.
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Today in India there are all sections of people, as the BJP realized when the poor voted them out.
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Could the activity of thinking as such, the habit of examining whatever happens to come to pass or to attract attention, regardless of results and specific content, could this activity be among the conditions that make men abstain from evil-doing?
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They politics like ours profess, the greater prey upon the less.
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The actual work of recording a record or making a film just requires that you consciously block the time out to do that and nothing else. That's what I do.
