Don Johnson Quotes
I pestered the hell out of everybody I ran into until I could play the guitar well enough to write and sing with it.

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I just realized quite early on that I'm not going to be the type who can write a novel every two years. I think you need to feel an urgency about the act. Otherwise, when you read it, you feel no urgency, either. So I don't write unless I really feel I need to, and that's a luxury.
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Study first, play afterwards.
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There are times where I am trying to make the big play before I even catch the football.
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I just write mechanical things.
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It took me a lot of years on the 'Burnett' show to feel like I had earned the privilege to play in the sandbox with the grown-ups.
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The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.
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I have a huge promotion: you've heard from me on 'Vantage Point' and also with 'Cyrano Fernandez' – that is a Venezuelan movie that I star in and co-produced, and it's based on the romance of Cyrano de Bergerac. And it's set in a Venezuelan slum. It's a free version of the French play.
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My drummer, bass player, and guitar player sing backgrounds. They play and sing. I can sing all the harmonies, but I can't do it alone.
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I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane.
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He was so honest you could play craps with him over the phone.
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Some days I wouldn't even go to class. I'd sit in the room and play video games with my friends and eat powdered mashed potatoes.
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'The One-Eyed Man' is a novel that was one I never intended to write.
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I wanted to play incredibly challenging, multifaceted characters. Because we are all a puzzle.
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I've always refused to play terrorists.
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I have never been to a museum in Hong Kong, or a movie or a play. I've never gone club-hopping. I've never taken the tram to Victoria Peak.
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Yes, it's hard to write. But it's harder not to.
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Center is a very tough position to play.
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I am lucky that the Western world chooses me to play roles in their movies an television, whatever language it may be.
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A little work, a little play, To keep us going - and so, good-day!
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I don't cuss in songs. It's too easy.
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As a writer, I had learned a lot on 'Margin Call' about embracing the weaknesses of a narrative and of a project. A story always has an inherent narrative weakness.
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Spring is the Period Express from God.
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It is a most fearful fact to think of, that in every heart there is some secret spring that would be weak at the touch of temptation, and that is liable to be assailed. Fearful, and yet salutary to think of; for the thought may serve to keep our moral nature braced. It warns us that we can never stand at ease, or lie down in this field of life, without sentinels of watchfulness and campfires of prayer.
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I pestered the hell out of everybody I ran into until I could play the guitar well enough to write and sing with it.