John Dawson Winter III (Johnny Winter) Quotes
The Progressive Blues Experiment, Johnny Winter... and Still Alive and Well is my favorite rock record.
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There's no doubt in the world that directing makes you a better actor. Me, anyway. There's no doubt in the world that it makes me a more collaborative actor.
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We hope the stories of the 14 kids in 'American High' provide something for many people to relate to.
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An unlimited America was the vision for the nation set forth by our Founding Fathers. It is the vision enshrined in those two great charters of freedom: our Declaration of Independence and our Constitution. Many of America's most intractable problems stem from the fact that we have strayed from that vision - and lost direction.
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Whether I sound like Sammy or not is purely coincidence. You have got to hand it to him, he sings his ass off. There is no moss on that stone.
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I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.
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We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development.
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Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.
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Being a pop star is something I don't think I'm very good at. I'm worried it's making me too paranoid, because all of a sudden, life has become this constant assessment. When you put something out there and people get to hear it, then those people react to it, socially, culturally.
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I wouldn't say I'm vain - I'm just in a job where the way you look is important. Well, at least the facelift wasn't vanity, but the hair was.
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I started out doing musicals.
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Stock photos are used everywhere on the Net. Chances are, the website you are on right now uses stock photos somewhere - maybe as the featured image of the blog post. This also means that there will always be a large market for stock photographers.
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I've grown up by the beach all my life, and I almost get anxiety if I haven't been swimming for a couple weeks or a month. It kind of builds up, so I try and get out as much as possible.
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I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
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The economic and social problems would tend to become, like the military situation, more and more difficult as time went on and we became more and more isolated.
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There's a secret sauce in California, and I hope people pay attention to it.
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I lived around the corner from Saul Bellow.
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I only hope to do well enough before I die to have a house as big as my rich Uncle Ed and Aunt Carole.
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Part of me looks forward to a time when I have a family and a partner and I take less of my nourishment from social occasions. Having a little unit around me will make my working life easier, because it is quite lonely otherwise.
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When all the world appears to be in a tumult, and nature itself is feeling the assault of climate change, the seasons retain their essential rhythm. Yes, fall gives us a premonition of winter, but then, winter, will be forced to relent, once again, to the new beginnings of soft greens, longer light, and the sweet air of spring.
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Music television is all about the media-oriented version of what it is to be a rock star; it's not about what Bob Dylan or Jimi Hendrix were about - which included great images, sure, but they had spiritual and political and revolutionary content, too.
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I grew up on popular music, and rock-and-roll expresses very deep feelings of those people who don't have a lot.
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As much as I am hip-hop, I'm soul. As much as I am soul, I'm a turntablist. As much as I'm a DJ, I love jazz and rock.
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The Progressive Blues Experiment, Johnny Winter... and Still Alive and Well is my favorite rock record.
