Johnny Van Zant Quotes

I just love going out and playing my brother's songs.

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• Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Ideas
  • Write
  • More

• I think female solitude is a mental condition as well as a physical state. You can be married and a spinster. I think spinster is an identity every woman can claim, if she will... I feel like a lot of women, or a lot of feminists, joke about taking to the sea or living alone in a cottage as this kind of fun freedom.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Women
  • She
  • Fun

• I am in that glorious position where I can redesign and re-package my own work.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Work
  • Position
  • Redesign

• A career in showbiz is like a distance run. You have to have patience and pace yourself.

  

  Tate Donovan
  • Career
  • You
  • Yourself

• It doesn't sound too good to say I am the son of a landowner, so let us rather say I am the grandson of exploited Galician peasants.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Son
  • Grandson
  • Landowner

• All of the characters in my films, they share one commonality. It doesn't matter whether they are good or bad, it doesn't matter whether they are smart or stupid, these characters all take responsibility for their own behavior. I'm much the same.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Responsibility

• I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Good
  • God
  • Bad

• There are staples to my show. I have to be conscious about switching things up because I know people who saw me last year will say, 'He did that last time.' But if certain things work, they work.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Truth
  • Man
  • Down

• With a genre like film noir, everyone has these assumptions and expectations. And once all of those things are in place, that's when you can really start to twist it about and mess around with it.

  

  Lana Wachowski
  • Place
  • Start
  • Expectations

• In life, you need many more things besides talent. Things like good advice and common sense.

  

  Hack Wilson
  • Life
  • Good
  • Advice

• In the main the Academy helped to frame only laws of an economic or social nature, since owing to the development of the totalitarian regime it became more and more impossible to cooperate in other spheres.

  

  Hans Frank
  • Nature
  • Impossible
  • Laws

• Our choices are going to determine the future for our children, our children's children, and their children. I take that responsibility very seriously.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Children
  • Future
  • Responsibility

• Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Poetry
  • Language
  • Feelings

• To lovers of the truth, nothing can be put before God and hope in Him.

  

  Saint Basil
  • God
  • Truth
  • Hope

• I deferred my third-year studies from university to go full time sailing to try and qualify for the 2012 London Olympics, which I did. I tried to go back to the university, but having won the silver medal, I just haven't been able to get back. And now I'm not sure if I ever will.

  

  Hannah Mills
  • Time
  • London
  • Sailing

• It wasn't easy getting 'GoodFellas' started.

  

  Irwin Winkler
  • Easy
  • Started
  • Getting

• I did not think I would be able to do myself justice if I had to speak to the players in English. I would not be able to get my emotions and feelings across.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • Myself
  • Justice
  • English

• I speak a little Spanish but I am so impressed by people who can speak a lot of different languages.

  

  Matthew Morrison
  • People
  • Different
  • Spanish

• Often we are so concerned with what makes us feel good that we forget what makes us great.

  

  Chin-Ning Chu
  • Good
  • Great
  • Forget

• Mum worked as a secretary for Orson Welles for what sounded like a very miserable year. Her brother was the actor Jeremy Brett, who became famous for playing Sherlock Holmes. He was an absolutely lovely man. Very exciting and glamorous, he'd always make me feel amazing and full of confidence, like I'd picked the right thing to do in life.

  

  Martin Clunes
  • Life
  • Amazing
  • Confidence

• 'To Kill a Mockingbird' is really two stories. One is a coming-of-age tale told from the point of view of Scout Finch, a girl of about nine, and her slightly older brother, Jem. The second story concerns their father, attorney Atticus Finch, who has been appointed to defend a black man, Tom Robinson, falsely accused of raping a white woman.

  

  Charles J. Shields
  • Age
  • Father
  • Black

• We are playing with a lot of confidence right now and we believe in each other more than ever. We are looking forward to trying to get in the playoffs and make something happen.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Believe
  • Trying
  • Confidence

• I just love going out and playing my brother's songs.

  

  Johnny Van Zant Lynyrd Skynyrd
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