Vince Gill Quotes
Well I think in all the thirty years I've been doing this now and being gone from home and all that stuff it's really, it's not about what I've achieved and if I've become a better player, or played better ten years ago than I do today.
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I'm always writing lyrics. I have so many lyrics on so many stray pieces of paper. Everywhere.
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Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind.
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I have only one life, so I want to make sure it's a good one.
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My short stories have always pushed twenty pages. That's no length for a short story to be. You either do them short like Carver or you stop trying.
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To be slandered the way I get slandered is really uncalled for, but life goes on.
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If you want to fight a war on drugs, sit down at your own kitchen table and talk to your own children.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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As independent filmmakers, we are actually deeply dependent on each other. The Spirit Awards are a public expression of those bonds, the intricate set of relationships and histories that we filmmakers depend on to make our most personal work.
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I think socializing on the Internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality.
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We had to get serious and hit all aspects. We had to graduate. That's what you got to do: reach all people across the nation.
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I like having a smaller family. I think the more people you have in the family, the more people there are to have problems with.
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Black beans and soy beans are the cornerstones of longevity diets around the world.
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Going to Freedom's Watch was a job opportunity that presented itself, so I jumped at it.
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The entertainment business is not the be-all and end-all for me.
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I was looking for what was coming from a man's soul and a man's conviction. I didn't care about his past. If it was innate and natural and felt good to him and it communicated.
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Homosexuality in Russia is a crime and the punishment is seven years in prison, locked up with the other men. There is a three year waiting list.
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Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
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I'm very aware that after you've played Cleopatra, there's not a lot that can top that in this sphere, so it means that I want to almost change the sphere I work in rather completely because I will always be comparing it to Cleopatra.
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I mix all different oils - my bathroom at home is littered with oils; I'm really into natural beauty and natural healing. Peppermint is really good if you put it on your stomach for a tummy ache; lavender is kind of all-purpose - I think everyone should carry it.
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There's no handbook for parenting. So you walk a very fine line as a parent because you are civilizing these raw things. They will tip the coffee over and finger-paint on the table. At some point, you have to say, 'We're gonna have to clean that up because you don't paint with coffee on a table.'
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I think it's important for one to take a certain distance from oneself.
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Detroit is beautiful - though you probably have to be a child of the industrial Midwest, like me, to see it.
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The idea that all we have is everything that's come before us, and we are the accumulated weight of our own personal histories, is a beautiful concept. And yet it also leaves you asking, 'Is that all there is? Is that all that defines us? Is that all we have?'
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Well I think in all the thirty years I've been doing this now and being gone from home and all that stuff it's really, it's not about what I've achieved and if I've become a better player, or played better ten years ago than I do today.
