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 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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People who build family businesses are not classically trained. They have to deal with an enormous amount of politics. You think corporate politics are tough? Go work for your dad or your mom.
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I like touring, I like being in the studio, a bit of both. I like to have a bit of time at home as well.
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Everybody's under God's planet, and God is the Almighty, the Beginning, the End, the Alpha, the Omega. He's Big Daddy. He gives out these little soldiers and sons and angels and saints to help everybody else get through to him. I'm not the 'Jesus-only or you're going to Hell' kind of guy.
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To me, you have to declare yourself a Chicano in order to be a Chicano. That makes a Chicano a Mexican-American with a defiant political attitude that centers on his or her right to self-definition. I'm a Chicano because I say I am.
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Taking B12 is the price of getting to be vegan, the way wearing a helmet is the price of getting to ride a motorcycle and giving up alcohol for nine months is the price of getting to have a baby.
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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.
