John Erskine Quotes
Lets tell young people the best books are yet to written; the best painting, the best government the best of everything is yet to be done by them.
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I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.
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I don't do detoxes or cleanses; they don't really work for me.
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I'm thrilled that country music fans like my stuff, but so do a lot of people outside of country music, people who just love music. My goal is more to reach music lovers than to appeal to a genre. I love country music, and I'm proud to represent it, but I don't obsess over it as a category.
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I didn't have traditional stage fright. If there was 500 people in the audience or three people in the audience, it didn't really make a difference. What made a difference was the conductor. Everything that I was scared about as a drummer was him.
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I'm the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then there's a few more albums in us.
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I could have probably built a great career in management consulting, but one of the insights that I had early on is that just because you're good at something doesn't mean that you should continue to do it. Somewhere in my heart of hearts I knew it wasn't what I wanted to do.
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It is still fashionable to believe that how you organize yourself religiously in this life may matter for eternity. Unless we can erode the prestige of that kind of thinking, we're not going to be able to undermine these divisions in our world.
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Dealing with the government does not mean you have to give a bribe.
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Early impressions are like glimpses seen through the window by night when lightning is about.
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I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
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I try to compartmentalize as much as possible, and I have the most amazing team in the world. They really set up my time in a way that is completely efficient all the time.
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I have never read 'To Kill A Mockingbird.'
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I think everybody understands the fact that the right person will be cast for the role. So it's not theirs really to lose; they're just trying to find the right person.
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I like the condition of being an outsider, just passing through.
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I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.
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I was always trying to get people to fix things that are wrong. Now, it was, 'How do I make things that are going good go better?
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I want to teach. I've got to figure a way to continue doing this in some capacity.
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A film set is the most comfortable place I could be in the world; that's what I know.
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It would be best not to impose a model too soon, because the model that exists in the west for these states is pathological, and the model that exists in the primitive cultures is mystical and religious.
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My dad founded the 'Rancho Santa Fe Times' and won a lot of journalism awards.
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I write as if I were drunk. It is a process of intuition rather than placing myself above my story like a puppeteer pulling strings. For me, it's a scary, chaotic process over which I have little control. Words demand other words, characters resist me.
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Sometimes I get lonely, but it's nice to be alone.
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When people go through tragic circumstances, it's not that there is no love there, but it's so hard to deal with and sometimes the gap starts to happen.
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Lets tell young people the best books are yet to written; the best painting, the best government the best of everything is yet to be done by them.
