John McCrea Quotes
The way I write, I work on a song, and I don’t really force myself to finish it. I finish it when I feel like finishing it. I’ve got dozens of songs going at once. That’s the way I preserve my happiness in writing: by doing it because I want to do it, not because I’m trying to finish a job.
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I firmly believe that one of the best kept secrets to soft and glowing skin is moisturisation.
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In a marathon, if you run too fast, you get exhausted. If you run too slow, you never make it.
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I adore Bette Davis and Vivien Leigh, but more because they were good actresses. That's what makes me interested in them, that they didn't present themselves as idols; they were just doing their jobs.
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Nobody is going to hand you a music career.
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But whether a couple is a man and a woman has everything to do with the meaning of marriage.
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To be a more efficient, faster, and cheaper way to send money around the world, you have to be able to get in and out of Bitcoin. You need to have a liquid exchange on either end of the corridor.
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I have lived a long life, and I am proud that I spend the whole of my life in the service of my people. I am only proud of this and nothing else. I shall continue to serve until my last breath, and when I die, I can say, that every drop of my blood will invigorate India and strengthen it.
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From time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, so that at all times they ardently desired them.
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In fact, the best thing we could do on taxes for all Americans is to simplify the individual tax code. This will be a tough job, but members of both parties have expressed an interest in doing this, and I am prepared to join them.
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Everybody I grew up with has incredible self-confidence and self-assurance. We were all loud, outspoken, wild kids and were celebrated for it.
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What most readers do not realize is that it takes a particular genius to write funny, to satirize.
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Two things are vital for me. I've always had people who protected me, and I've always had people who helped me. Before I decide, I consult with three, four people who I trust.
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In order to win you must be prepared to lose sometime. And leave one or two cards showing.
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We have to be able to criticize what we love,Say what we have to say,'Cause if you're not trying to make something better,Then as far as I can tell, you are just in the way.
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I don't know if I'd ever sing a whole album because I don't know if I'd want to hear my voice for more than three or four songs.
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I don't have a formal home recording studio, but I can record tracks on my computer upstairs in my office.
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I've never had a stylist, and I've always chosen my own clothes.
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The evening is really hard for me. I have to force myself not to eat.
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I'm a pretty happy person, to be honest with you.
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One of the amazing things about writing fiction is that you do get to be other people.
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No more. A puff of writing long gone. Is this the child pulling on the flying cloth of its mother's last worn dress?
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When you make a melody that doesn't come with words from the get-go, sometimes you're just thinking about random vowel sounds that go with it - and it's really, really hard to write lyrics that actually obey the vowel sounds.
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I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.
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The way I write, I work on a song, and I don’t really force myself to finish it. I finish it when I feel like finishing it. I’ve got dozens of songs going at once. That’s the way I preserve my happiness in writing: by doing it because I want to do it, not because I’m trying to finish a job.
