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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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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After years of piecemeal reform the current welfare system is complex and unfair.
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What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.
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No longer are the days where I just kind of fly under the radar. Everybody's recognizing me. Everybody wants pictures. They feel inspired. It's very cool.
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Yes, we have different viewpoints represented among us," she continued. "Yes, we have a displacer in our number, and a half giant, and a seedman who publicly disgraced us." "She's talking about you," Drake muttered to Nollin, loud enough to draw a laugh. "No, Drake, I'm talking about you," Farfalee corrected.
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It is human nature to want to exchange ideas, and I believe that, at bottom, every artist wants no more than to tell the world what he has to say.
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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.
