Buck Owens (Alvis Edgar Owens Jr.) Quotes
We were sharecroppers - we were a little bit of everything. We farmed and tried to make something.
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In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive and always have been of my career.
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I was in an awful lot of trouble in Hollywood.
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As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.
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Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.
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It seems to me that more and more we've come to expect less and less from each other, and I think that should change.
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No change can come if those who are impacted the most by discrimination are not willing to stand up for themselves.
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The current prohibition laws are forcing drug disputes to be played out with guns in our streets. We need to put a stop to this criminal drug element in our country.
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For me life is a challenge. And it will be a challenge if I live to be 100 or if I get to be a trillionaire.
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The mainstream media has chosen their candidates and their issues, and they're not the same as the GOP's. They are going to be painted as the bad guys.
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You still slightly down that you're ever going to work again, every time you finish something. That's the territory of being an actor. It's like anything that's competitive. It takes a lot of determination. I just feel lucky to be able to do something that I really love.
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The more I support with my economic plans the building of a middle class, the quicker they're going to turn around and say, 'Hey, we want a bigger say in things.' So, I knew what I was getting into right at the beginning. It's the right thing to do.
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To be honest with you, I don't have one track that I consider better than the next because all I'm trying to do is still grow as an artist. I got way better since the early nineties, as far as putting words together. My best energy probably was the '90s, because I was new.
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The challenge we have in the war on terrorism is looking around for those pieces that matter and trying to fit them together.
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We also have a real opportunity to join NATO.
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You can wear a beautiful black dress that you've maybe had for years, but if you wear a fun shoe, you can completely change it. Wear something different, something sexy, something strappy, or something with pom poms.
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If it feels like we're re-creating something rather than creating something, we don't do it.
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That was the day I began cutting classes and returning to TV tapings; it ultimately led to a friendship with Johnny O, and an increasing fascination and respect for what he did.
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I was neitherLiving nor dead, and I knew nothing, Looking into the heart of light, the silence.
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You're pulling 4-5G for a lot of the corners around the lap. We build up lactic acid because there are a lot of vibrations in the car, and you have to have strong legs to hit the brake pedal. We need to be fit to do every lap at 100%.
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My priciple is, the artist shall put forth, humbly & lovingly, without bitterness, the very best & highest that is within him,utterly regardless of contemporary criticism.
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What connects me so strongly to Israel is the fact that I'm second generation. My parents said, "We have a place where we can just be ourselves and nobody says, 'Don't tell me your opinion, you damn Jew, go somewhere else.'" Then you go to this country and other Jews tell you to shut up. It's frustrating. I think that we have a bad government and that some people are fearful. They're going with the class bully. But I really truly believe - you read it in my stories - that deep inside, people have goodness.
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We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.
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When I was a kid, we had acoustic guitars, a piano in the house. I made a drum kit out of buckets in my garage.
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We were sharecroppers - we were a little bit of everything. We farmed and tried to make something.
