Johnny Gimble Quotes
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Providence was well aware what lay ahead for me, and my Capuchin training was to prepare me for it.
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Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.
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What makes a woman beautiful is her loyalty to and her friendships with other women, and her honesty with men.
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I really enjoy dancing. When there's music around, I can't help it; I start dancing, especially when I'm with friends.
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I might not be the greatest actor, but I walk into every project willing to work hard.
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I've never been good at meditation, but surfing is the closest I've ever come to that inner something.
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Octavia Butler was more interested in writing a good story than in worrying about where to slot it.
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It was hard for me to hear anyone saying they didn't like 'Billy Madison.'
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I've been a loner all the time throughout my life... I haven't been the best father... Many times... my children have accused me of not giving them enough attention. And, frankly, I never have been good at handling that.
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It's hard enough to write a good drama, it's much harder to write a good comedy, and it's hardest of all to write a drama with comedy. Which is what life is.
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Remember: You are the common denominator in all your relationship problems. Wherever you go, your pesky repeated issues go - until you shed a blazing light of insight upon them.
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My comedy isn't about being attractive - it's about how the bar of dumb seems so low right now, and I desperately want to raise the bar of dumb just a tiny bit.
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When you're given a newspaper column, you're not being paid to sit on a fence and scratch your chin and say 'On the one hand this' and 'On the other hand that.' You're getting paid for your opinion.
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If you look at weak democracies, the oligarchies that have taken undue control of them always seek to tamper with the vote. It is important for oligarchs to have elections to give their guy a veneer of legitimacy - and important for the vote always to turn out 'their way.'
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If I grew up in 'da hood,' it would make my story so much more interesting - if I had something to escape from. I had a pretty good life. My parents weren't rich; they weren't poor. I wasn't trying to escape from anything. It was always just the pursuit of something cooler.
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I see retirement as just another of these reinventions, another chance to do new things and be a new version of myself.
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Take chances, find your voice in fashion, and find what you like, and find what makes you feel good, and do that.
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If you want to get along, go along.
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I keep my old friends, and get older with them, but push young. It's good to be surrounded by kids, because they keep you young.
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Independence was a big, big thing for me. I saw my voice as a way out - when my parents fought, I'd run up to my room, put on The Sound of Music, open the window and sing out. My voice was my escape.
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I never leave the house without putting on my lipstick.
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A good old rodeo never hurt anyone.
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We gazed dreamily at the Milky Way and once in a while caught some shooting stars. Times like those gave me the opportunity to wonder and ask all those very basic questions. That sense of awe for the heavens started there.
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I wasn't really an old-time breakdown fiddler.
