Johnny Van Zant Quotes
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When I first got back from the war, I said, 'I'm gonna write the Great American Novel about the Vietnam War.' So I sat down and wrote 1,700 pages of sheer psychotherapy drivel. It was first person, and there would be pages about wet socks and cold feet.
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From the ashes of a financial crash, there is a chance to create a new economic settlement that is more equal, sustainable and democratic.
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My mom used to tell me when I was little, 'When it rains, it's God's manifestation - a big day's waiting to happen.'
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It's fun to play dress up for work, but when you have those off-days, it's nice to just be low-key.
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Most women find a man with good manners sexy.
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Islam has shown two faces to the Jews, one benevolent, one less so.
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I'm an aggressive fighter, but I'm smart. I'm not going to play stupid.
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Out-of-step intellectuals like Noam Chomsky and the deceased Edward Said have often been dismissed as crazy extremists, 'anti-American,' and in Mr. Said's case even, absurdly, as apologists for Palestinian 'terrorism.'
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I dropped the 'Bundy' with my country music because I wanted it to be two separate things: There's me as a songwriter and a country singer, and there's me as a Broadway performer.
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Getting recognized on the street is fine, but I never really wanted to be famous.
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The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death.
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I'm a big Johnny Cash girl. And I love singers like Laura Marling and Joanna Newsom.
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I'm a dirt road out in the country kind of person, but I remember thinking, I could live in Chicago.
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I bat righty.
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'Twin Peaks' without David Lynch is like a dog without a bark.
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It was probably my parents who inspired me most. My father was a scientist and answered my scientific questions, while my mother took me on walks and showed me birds and plants. She also took me out at night and showed me the constellations and the aurora.
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We want to challenge the established ideas with new ideas.
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Pleasure usually takes the form of me and now; joy is us and always.
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There was a long hard time when I kept far from me the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I was quite ignorant of its worth.
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In the absence of orders, go find something and kill it.
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Actually, I don't think there's anyone that represents the artists, except the artists themselves.
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You've got major artists releasing albums on their own and eschewing the major system. I think that breeds excitement and creativity.
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It's important for artists to value themselves - whatever that means. Everyone's going to take that in a different way. If you don't value yourself, you will be bought and sold.
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So many artists try to be something that they're not.
