Mirriam Johnson (Jessi Colter) Quotes
What I felt is the same kind of love I felt between Waylon and his audience. And that's what I miss.
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I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents.
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Anyone who sits in our jails who is not just a criminal but what we call a terrorist, with or without blood on his hands - and these definitions are also unclear to me - should not be sitting in our custody.
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Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.
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John McCain... looks like a fraud to me.
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I'm not an architectural composer.
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Quite frankly, Barack Obama knows what it's like to pay a mortgage and student loans. He knows what it's like to watch a beloved family member in a medical crisis and worry that treatment is out of reach. Barack Obama knows our struggles. And, my friends, he shares our values.
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The truth is, when I got started in this business, it wasn't because I had a full understanding of the importance of the business, but because I thought it was fun. I found it exciting. It fulfilled me, whatever it was that I was looking for.
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I got a big mouth.
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There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.
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I caught up on a lot of just domestic normal everyday stuff, and grew up a lot, and went to therapy, and did a lot of contemplating and figuring things out. I needed to just strip everything away and figure out who I am and get to know myself, as cheesy as that sounds.
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My three husbands were afraid of me. I am a very powerful woman.
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Blinking is some way of tabulating - a kind of carriage return, click, or save to disk - that helps the process of 'Okay, now change the subject.' Every time you move your eyes, there's an interruption in the visual field - you go momentarily blind when your eyeballs are moving.
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I graduated from the University of Oklahoma, and I got the opportunity to take some on-camera classes while I was in school and met a casting director who informed me quite a bit before my move out to L.A.; it made L.A. feel possible, coming from Oklahoma and not having a family that was in the industry.
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I just love music, and I absorbed what I love.
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We live in a world where people think that finding a passion is so rare that if you find one you're the luckiest person on the planet, and the possibility of finding two is just bizarre. It isn't. We have multiple passions.
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Country fans are the most loyal in the world, but they know every song that you put out - not just the singles.
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I can't say 'I'm proud to say' - because it's not a choice for many Americans - but I can say I'm fortunate enough to not be raising my kids on McDonald's.
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I love performing. I love getting out there. It's kind of like why I make music.
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I grew up watching all these crazy movies, European movies and stuff, and I guess that I always laughed at things that were a little more offbeat.
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The corporate system dictates what gets made, and the movies are so bad because of the economic structure of Hollywood. The big business takeover of Hollywood is at fault rather than American storytellers - it's what keeps textured movies from getting made.
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As if there could be true stories: things happen in one way, and we retell them in the opposite way.
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I lost my wife Barbara to cancer few years ago. I would give whatever time I have left to spend one more day with her.
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Talk was cheap and useless. Action was what mattered. And me, I was moving. Now, again, always.
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What I felt is the same kind of love I felt between Waylon and his audience. And that's what I miss.
