Don Johnson Quotes
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Quitting law school was the most difficult decision of my life. But I felt this great relief that this is my life and I can do what I want with it.
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As the scripts come in they are sent to the artists, and the artists are either very busy, or ready to start.
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Some on the Left can be very selective about the kinds of violence they oppose. For some of them, gun violence is a crime to be decried - unless it is committed by an 'aggrieved' victim against what they consider a corrupt institution.
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When I first got back from the war, I said, 'I'm gonna write the Great American Novel about the Vietnam War.' So I sat down and wrote 1,700 pages of sheer psychotherapy drivel. It was first person, and there would be pages about wet socks and cold feet.
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I began teaching in New York because I needed to stay in the United States and didn't have my immigration papers in order, so working for a university was a way of resolving the issue.
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Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question.
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My hero wants to belong too, but he doesn't want to give up all the things he came to value in the west.
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Fifty-million-dollar movies gobble up the medium movies. A lot of people aren't working in Hollywood because of this.
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I'm an aggressive fighter, but I'm smart. I'm not going to play stupid.
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If I was doing a musical, I would never listen to the cast album, because I wanted to do my version of something.
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Content is king. When you are asking people to read you several times a day, you better have some fine content.
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Out-of-step intellectuals like Noam Chomsky and the deceased Edward Said have often been dismissed as crazy extremists, 'anti-American,' and in Mr. Said's case even, absurdly, as apologists for Palestinian 'terrorism.'
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In spite of the polls, the fact is that American Muslims are very happy and they thrive in this country.
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Give yourself more opportunities for privacy, when you are not bombarded with duties and obligations. Privacy is not a rejection of those you love; it is your deserved respite for recharging your batteries.
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Mark Zuckerberg did his own software for Facebook, and Larry Page and Sergey Brin made their own for Google.
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I dropped the 'Bundy' with my country music because I wanted it to be two separate things: There's me as a songwriter and a country singer, and there's me as a Broadway performer.
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When I'm not surfing or sailing, I am to be found at the harbour working on my boat.
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One experiments and has to choose always the best results.
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It's easy for me to get along with chess players. Even though we are all very different, we have chess in common.
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Even the most seemingly unpleasant situations - if you become aligned with it, something good will emerge from that.
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Subjective artists are one-eyed, but objective artists are blind.
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In fashion, there are so many gangs, if you identify too much with one, you get caught - I would lose my freedom.
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I work with my brother Finneas, and he produces all of my music in his little bedroom in our house. We actually tried renting out a studio for a month when we were producing 'Don't Smile at Me,' but it was really hard there, and we ended up just doing it at home anyway.
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The most aggressive artists often hide their romantic side.
