Jerry Jeff Walker Quotes
There seems to be a great propensity in this business to write tear-jerkers, 'You-left-me' songs. I thought, 'Why don't I count my blessings by looking at what I have?' I'm pretty much an optimistic guy.
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Where having been an actor was extremely helpful to me was in casting. That's where I think a director who has acted can really shine, and casting is the most important thing you do.
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It's hard to have people talking about you and trashing you in the media and saying they think your career is over... and you are only 25.
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I just prepare myself to perform well, to support my teammates to play well, to try to get to the final, to the World Series.
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I have a general sense of mission, and I intuitively know when something is influencing that mission. I think this is what I'm supposed to be doing. Doors keep opening. In the end, it's the best use of my skills. I've finally consented to the idea that I'm an artist.
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I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
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I love the horror genre and the thriller genre, so I've got no problem with playing a psycho.
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The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
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My son has taken liking for sports and is most of the time playing cricket and football. It is so much fun being with them, as I'm enjoying every phase of motherhood.
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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I never bought the commercial thing, at any stage of the game.
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Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.
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A lot of movies that come from Israel are about war, but there is such good, funny, rounded writing that comes from the country that I wish more people would discover.
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The emotions have been seen as the center of woman's soul. For that reason, emotional formation will have to be centrally placed in woman's formation.
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Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.
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I've got a great eye for color. I'm like a chick.
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When I run in Ethiopia, I look out and see eucalyptus trees and rivers.
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If you think of exercise as a 60-minute commitment 3 times a week at the gym, you're missing the point completely. If you think that going on a diet has something to do with nutrition, you don't see the forest through the trees. It is a lifestyle. I know it sounds cliche, but you have to find things you love to do.
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Odd that the brain could function on its own, without acquainting him with its purposes, its reasons. But the brain was an organ, like the spleen, heart, kidneys. And they went about their private activities. So why not the brain?
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Every woman needs secrets,' her mother said with a smile then, her eyes meeting Sally's in the rearview mirror. 'Remember that when you're old like me, pumpkin, because the world has a way of making a woman's life everyone else's business--you have to dig out a little place that's only yours.
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Since the business of politics is the conciliation of differing interests, justice must not merely be done, but to be seen to be done.
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Marty Schottenheimer knows how to win, and that's what Redskins fans demand in a coach.
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There seems to be a great propensity in this business to write tear-jerkers, 'You-left-me' songs. I thought, 'Why don't I count my blessings by looking at what I have?' I'm pretty much an optimistic guy.
