Johnny Van Zant Quotes
If nothing else, we grew up loving the old blues artists and Ray Charles.
Quotes to Explore
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Live TV has an amazing pace to it. You've got to be able to think quick, make changes last minute, and be funny and fast.
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All men begin their learning with Homer.
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I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.
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It's not that that I'm not comfortable being naked, but when you grow up fat, you can't take away the shame or embarrassment even though you're a model. It's not just erased.
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I do all these various activities like painting and writing, comedy and films probably because not that I'm good at everything but because I'm not good at any of these things.
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When students have thanked me in the past for being their teacher, I have always felt that it was actually my love for the art of teaching they were speaking to.
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If I feel that I'm not able to do my best work - whether that's my own fault or as a result of an editorial situation - then I need to stop doing it. I would rather not do something than do it badly or ineffectively. It's the only way I can live with myself and do right by the fans in the long haul.
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Help is dangerous because it exists outside the human economy: the only payment for help is gratitude.
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You can watch someone on – stage cry and cry – but in the audience you feel nothing. It's easy to become indulgent. For me, what's important is the story first.
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I, Maggie, personally cannot tell you that you're going to save the planet. But what I do know is that we can draw a line to an issue that can conserve what we already have and what's left in a way that we can actually breathe the air, drink the water, actually grow things in soil - that matters in a real, practical way.
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We spend our time responding rationally to a world which we understand and recognize, but which no longer exists.
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Generally speaking, I don't think people know a great deal about the Viking culture, apart from the label that is usually attached to them, either pillagers or deviants who came and brought back loot to Norway. It was an incredibly sophisticated, complex and layered culture. They had their own laws, many of which protected women.
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Formula One has been the backdrop of my life.
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The problem was just a mean attitude that festers and has to be challenged.
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I've always had really messy hair.
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All the Junos, the Grammy nominations, the gold and platinum records, did nothing to assuage my conviction that I was an out-and-out loser.
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Let me tell you, writing comics is as hard as anything I've ever done - for me, at least. I'm now officially in awe of guys who can crank out multiple books a month and maintain a high level of quality. Comics are completely different than any other medium I've dabbled in.
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I grew up partially around Stone Mountain, Georgia, and in that part of the country, there was always this aura of mythology and palpable sense of otherness about being a Southerner.
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With the lights out, It's less dangerous. Here we are now, Entertain us. I feel stupid, And contagious. Here we are now. Entertain us.
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What we link to pleasure and what we link to pain determines our destiny.
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There is nothing so beautiful as the free forest. To catch a fish when you are hungry, cut the boughs of a tree, make a fire to roast it, and eat it in the open air, is the greatest of all luxuries. I would not stay a week pent up in cities if it were not for my passion for art.
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There is no famine or actual starvation nor is there likely to be.
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I want to score 50 goals. It's my dream.
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If nothing else, we grew up loving the old blues artists and Ray Charles.
