Johnny Rivers Quotes
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Sometimes when I'm going to the supermarket to get the coffee and cat litter, I get freaked out and see all these people staring, and you turn around and there's, like, 40 people all looking at you... and when you go around the corner, they're all following you! You start freaking out like a trapped animal.
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We wrote 'Olive Kitteridge' as six hours, and they asked us to make it in four.
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If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.
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I think people respect honesty rather than hiding it.
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We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.
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The American dream always meant that anybody willing to put in a hard day's work could make a decent living. That's just not true anymore for people without at least some post-high school education.
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The good poet sticks to his real loves, those within the realm of possibility. He never tries to hold hands with God or the human race.
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Your barber always knows everything that goes on in the town, doesn't he?
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America faces a new race that has awakened.
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I've just finished reading 'The Second Plane,' and I think it's some of the best non-fiction I've ever read.
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Meeting Oprah Winfrey, I cried like a baby. Meeting Steven Spielberg, I cried like a baby. Meeting Denzel Washington, I gushed like a crazy woman. If I don't get excited or star struck by someone I've been dying to meet, it's time to retire.
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It's not my ambition to be a big star.
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I think the next thing I publish will be for children, but I don't really want to be held to that because I also know what my next book for adults will be, and I really like that, too, so it depends. I've always had more than one thing going.
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Movies are extremely imitative of one another. Whatever works, people will try to do it.
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I want everyone to know what they deserve in relationships: that they can demand equality and kindness. Because everyone will have a relationship at some point in their life. It's what we all do, every day, and we need to know how to do it.
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The time of illusion, then, is the beautiful moment of passion; it represents the artistic zone in which the poet or romance writer ought to be free to do the very best that he can.
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Though many people mistakenly credit IBM with the first PC in 1981, the Apple II came out four years earlier, in 1977.
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We just say things differently in Australia - like torch. I'd ask, 'Can I have the torch?' It seems to fall flat when I say, 'Can I have the flashlight?'
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Always leave a sinking ship. There's no virtue in hanging on to losers. And stocks don't have feelings.
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Why has it seemed that the only way to protect the environment is with heavy-handed government regulation?
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People have a fear of the unknown. Insects have different senses than us, different amount of limbs and their body structure is very different. It's hard for us to really relate to them and understand them.
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Until blacks and whites see each other as brother and sister, we will not have parity. It's very clear.
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I accepted an offer to do a concert for the reopening of the Mall of Memphis.
