Kris Kristofferson Quotes
I don't care what's right or wrong, I don't try to understand, Let the devil take tomorrow, Lord tonight I need a friend.
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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
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My parents are divorced, and seeing that was really painful for me. Really painful for me. But that's also a big part of why I'm intrigued by the dynamics between people – because I was close to something that fell apart.
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Without a dog, you'll be without at least one creature who thinks you are the smartest, most decent and heroic human being on the planet.
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After I'd hit a home run and took my position in the field, the fans in the bleachers began throwing packages of tobacco at me. I stuffed them in my pocket.
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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Fortunately, as it pertains to guns, my dad and uncle introduced me to guns the way it needs to be done: smart, slow and safe.
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If we do everything right, the best we can do is live out our potential with as little age-related disease and disability as possible.
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Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way.
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I think that charity is a tricky thing, because a lot of times, people equate charity with handouts. I don't believe in handouts.
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Married at 23, a mother at 24, and blindsided by divorce at 28, I found myself struggling, like many young women I meet today, to strike a balance between my personal life and my career.
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You cannot have adoration without being criticized.
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We're more sexually repressed than men, having been given a much more strict puritanical code of behavior than men ever have.
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The greatest compliment a writer can be given is that a story and character hold a reader spellbound. I'm caught up in the story writing and I miss a good deal of sleep thinking about it and working out the plot points.
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You say 'African music' and you think 'tribal drumming.' But there's a lot of African music that's like James Brown, and a lot, too, that sounds very Hispanic.
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We cannot say no to what has already been approved by the citizens.
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It's not the most intellectual job in the world, but I do have to know the letters.
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If I don't die in a plane crash or something, this country has a rare opportunity to watch a great talent grow.
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I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.
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Reality is the richest thing there is, the most important thing there is. Our imagination allows us to live an artificial life that is wonderful, extremely rich, but I don't believe any artist would dare to say that artifice is better than real life.
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At the time I was writing 'Weedflower,' my friend Naomi Hirahara was writing a book about Japanese-American flower farmers. She knew quite a few elderly farmers and put me in touch with four or five of them who had been in camps during WWII. Some, like my father, were reluctant to talk about their experiences.
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I married a German. Every night I dress up as Poland and he invades me.
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We keep secrets from people that we love because we're afraid of our own truth. I think sometimes we're afraid to hurt people, because you never know. I think we're afraid of what is, and what can't be.
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I don't care what's right or wrong, I don't try to understand, Let the devil take tomorrow, Lord tonight I need a friend.
