James McCloughan Quotes
Any time I can spend time with my brothers and sisters who fight for this country and fight for freedom, it's a positive thing.
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Romeo Must Die came at the right time. It was the right vehicle for me.
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'Yellow Moon' was a poem. My wife at the time, Joel - she's dead now - it was our 25th anniversary. She had the chance to go on a cruise with her sister. And I'm home with the kids and looking up, and I saw the big moon, and I just started writing.
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This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it.
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I hate committing myself to anything. It's probably the lack of discipline, honestly. I'm probably a spoiled brat worried about getting my way every time.
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In fashion, we don't often know the prices. We don't have time to go into the stores.
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I think one's history and past is important at a certain time in your life, especially as an artist, just to try to hone in on that.
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We played 'Girl in a Country Song' in front of Scott Borchetta, and he loved it.
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I thought I was going to be a filmmaker but at the same time I was an intellectual and I felt that I could make a contribution to some field, as yet, not invented.
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I've done stuff in the past and followed in the footsteps of my heroes, and each time, it felt a little bit surreal.
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So if we are really concerned about generating more taxes, we ought to be investing in our people, not taking away the kinds of resources that contribute to their ability to become greater taxpayers in this country.
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Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its languages.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human.
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Lake Wobegon, the little town that time forgot and the decades cannot improve.
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Always go into meetings or negotiations with a positive attitude. Tell yourself you're going to make this the best deal for all parties.
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I've always been motivated more by negative comments than by positive ones. I know what I do well. Tell me what I don't do well.
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The winter solstice has always been special to me as a barren darkness that gives birth to a verdant future beyond imagination, a time of pain and withdrawal that produces something joyfully inconceivable, like a monarch butterfly masterfully extracting itself from the confines of its cocoon, bursting forth into unexpected glory.
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My mom told me a long time ago, 'Never get in a fight with a lady.'
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Playing live is everything. Sometimes being on the road is hard, and it's a lot of work, and tiring. From a musical point of view, you improve all the time. Not only that, but you learn how to deal with people and deal with energy in a live setting.
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You're just playing, playing, playing, and then an image or something will come into your mind, and basically you're just narrating it with music, letting it move along.
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Where the determination is, the way can be found.
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Mainly, I hope to inspire honesty. We live in a space where so much can be manipulated, and so much is expected to be manipulated - curated, contrived, edited. I think that's a real detriment to self expression and happiness in a lot of ways. In my mind, honesty and vulnerability is the way forward.
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Either you run the day or the day runs you.
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Any time I can spend time with my brothers and sisters who fight for this country and fight for freedom, it's a positive thing.
