David Allan Coe Quotes
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Nothing is really typical of my efforts... I'm simply casting about for better ways to crystallise and capture certain strong impressions (involving the elements of time, the unknown, cause and effect, fear, scenic and architectural beauty, and other seemingly ill-assorted things) which persist in clamouring for expression.
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We live in a world where sports have the potential to bridge the gap between racism, sexism and discrimination. The 2012 Olympic Games was a great start but hopefully what these games taught us is that if women are given an opportunity on an equal playing field the possibilities for women are endless.
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Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?
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I'm the oldest 26-year-old I know. A lot of experience has been crammed into a short amount of time. Some days I feel a good 65, 70. Like I want to lie down.
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When I started modeling, they tried to pay black models less than they paid Caucasian models. I turned down those jobs because I knew what I was worth.
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I got into journalism not to be a journalist but to try to change American foreign policy. I'm a corny person. I was a dreamer predating my journalistic life, so I got into journalism as a means to try to change the world.
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For me, writing is such an escape, and I felt very lucky to have this to run away to.
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God is not separate from anything, or anyone. So it's impossible to prevent God from being visible in our government.
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Maybe in music you're making an auditory environment and maybe you change your environment around you to suit your own way.
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My life has been very lucky, but I made some of that luck.
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Familiar life, tending to sordidness, had been succeeded by remote life, generally idealized; historical detail had been brought in to teach readers who were being entertained.
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I love entertaining people, and I want to pursue it.
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Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.
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I have two children and they're young yet but all of the children that I know really inspire me.
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I liked the more sophisticated urban style of blues like Ray Charles and B. B. King, Bobby Blue Bland, Lou Rawls; people like that with more of a tendency toward jazz.
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I'm always in flats. Jeans, jumper, flat shoes or a pair of trainers. It would probably surprise people, but I have to be comfortable. It's not about me dressing up and looking good. I've got to get stuff done.
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In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power.
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I just love the culture of Melbourne.
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A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.
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Never give up your power to another person.
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The only way I could finish a book and get a plot was just to keep making it longer until something happens.
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I'm kind of getting over the whole Manhattan life. I'm from Vancouver, and that means mountains and a lot of space.
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There is something in us, as storytellers and as listeners to stories, that demands the redemptive act, that demands that what falls at least be offered the chance to be restored.
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I've written songs about things that nobody else has ever written about.
