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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I want to work with different people, and I would like to work in different places.
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Eminem is more like a friend. And I'm also a fan on Eminem.
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Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself.
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Special-interest magazines are dangerous places for writers to start out in because the writing quickly falls into a routine and people are likely to find themselves artistically exhausted when they want to work on something of their own.
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If I were to say you are crazy, what part of that would you find unacceptable?
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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.
