Chet Atkins (Mr. Guitar) Quotes
A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give you a formula for that.

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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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I get recognized so much. It happens mostly when I'm in Starbucks.
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No one has a name in 'The Road.' Like Cormac McCarthy's novel from which it's adapted, 'The Road' features characters such as the man, the boy, the wife, the old man and the veteran.
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It was very difficult when I was trying to figure out how to have a marriage and babies and do this at the same time. There was no handbook. You were making it up as you went along.
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You don't move just because you want to go from this point to that point - the body has to be using the words as well as you vocally use the words.
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It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to get hurt.
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My first audition was for a commercial for the lottery. I didn't get it, so I hate the lottery.
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I still have a young attitude.
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In most movies there is a Prince Charming who rides up and saves the girl.
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Kitchens are so important. They're the heart of everything.
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A lot of times, you think you want something, and then you find something completely different.
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If you only write when the muse strikes, you won't get anything done. You have to write consistently, when your schedule says you should. And that's hard.
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If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples lives for the better. But you can only do that for about 300 people to maybe a thousand people - if you're really prolific and you're working really hard.
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Test cricket is a different sort of cricket altogether. Some players who are good for one-day cricket may be a handicap in a Test match.
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Working with Bill Cosby was incredible. I was lucky to be a part of that.
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I get really restless when I haven't worked for a day and a half. I have a recurring dream that people are lined up next to my bed, waiting for autographs and taking pictures of me!
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I wear a lot of wigs as Jacques Mesrine. He'd wear multiple wigs and take them off one at a time to rob three banks in one hour.
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Thus, races arose from an original coding which God pulled out as needed for adaptation to the environment.
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Politically correct speech will not defeat the enemy.
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It is not enough for journalists to see themselves as mere messengers without understanding the hidden agendas of the message and the myths that surround it
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but there was an immediately perceptible vitality about her as if the nerves of her body were continually smouldering.
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I think I do overshare, and I sometimes marvel that I do it. But it's sort of - in a way, it's my way of trying to understand myself.
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The Lord took twice the time making thee, Alvin Smith, cause it took that long to put the mischief in.
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A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give you a formula for that.