Johnny Van Zant Quotes
Rock & roll has kept us alive for all these years. But we just love country music. It's in our blood.
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I worked at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, lived there for three years, and lived in Baltimore for 12 years.
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When I was 12 years old, I got interested in learning English.
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What I'm most pleased about is that there's no particular decline. The songs I wrote 40 years ago are no worse and no better - there's a consistency.
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It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.
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I started submitting stories for publication when I was about 15, but it was many years before I sold anything. I don't make my living writing science fiction, so in that sense, I'm still not a pro.
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There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.
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Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
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My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names.
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In Montreal, I kept thinking, 'Pay attention: this is the Olympics! It only happens once every four years!'
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I started playing trumpet when I was 11 years old. All I wanted to be was a jazz trumpet player when I grew up.
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In all my years of baseball, I have always expected to be traded. I never liked the idea.
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Many years ago, I really didn't know where the next work was coming from.
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Are you a Democrat because you're a union member? Then why, after eight years of Bill Clinton, does some Chinese guy in Guangdong province have your job?
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I imagine a future with no waste; material innovations have already become exponentially more vast, and I do think the future needs to be cradle to cradle. If designed properly, one product could be used for many years before needing to be recycled, or its components reused.
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The rewards of the wild and the rewards of the survivor go to those who can dig deep, and, ultimately, to the guy who can stay alive.
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Over the years, so many exceptions and amendments were made to China's one-child policy that it was hard to pinpoint a moment to pronounce it dead.
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It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
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I've been auditioning since I was 7 years old.
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It is hard to know which is the more remarkable- that it took 600 million years for the Earth to make its oil, or that it took 300 years to use it up.
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From my earliest years I had always wanted to be a writer. It was not that I had any particular message for humanity. I am still plugging away and not the ghost of one so far, so it begins to look as though, unless I suddenly hit mid-season form in my eighties, humanity will remain a message short.
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I don't know who's 18 years old today that, 20 years hence, is going to be a jazz fan.
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The greatest thing you can do is surprise yourself.
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You can't expect a child not to become a product of his environment. If you're a drinker, you'll raise a drunk. If you're a single mother, traipsing men in and out of your bedroom in front of your girl child - mark my words, in time she'll claim a corner and charge money for what you gave away for free. Kings and queens raise princes and princesses. That's just the way it is.
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Rock & roll has kept us alive for all these years. But we just love country music. It's in our blood.
