Merle Travis Quotes
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I will say that a lot of songs that I've written are from my own personal experiences which are special to me.
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I love to draw and paint. I'm very active in that way, but I'm not very good with the written word, though.
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In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.
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If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost.
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I've still not written as well as I want to. I want to write so that the reader in Des Moines, Iowa, in Kowloon, China, in Cape Town, South Africa, can say, 'You know, that's the truth. I wasn't there, and I wasn't a six-foot black girl, but that's the truth.'
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The inspiration to write? Perhaps it's not so much inspiration, as a NEED to write. I get itchy and guilty and dissatisfied when I haven't written for a while. Ideas come to me and need to be written down.
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I would like to be mates with Richard Branson because I've hung out with him and he is just the loveliest person and obviously a very rich guy and has a lot of stuff going on, but he's actually a really, really sound person, and he's really positive and he's got a really good energy, so I'd like to hang out with him a bit more.
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The third person narrator, instead of being omniscient, is like a constantly running surveillance tape.
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I've learned... that just one person saying to me, 'You've made my day!' makes my day.
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Every cool riff has already been written by Black Sabbath. You're either playing it faster or slower or backwards, but they wrote it first.
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Slavery is what slavery's always been: About one person controlling another person using violence and then exploiting them economically, paying them nothing. That's what slavery's about
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The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.
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I'm a person that works off of music. I let the music dictate the direction.
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I was the only person of color in the Senate, and my colleagues were Strom Thurmond, Jesse Helms and Trent Lott.
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The fact that I have a lot of songs written doesn't keep me from wanting to write new ones, or new ones from coming.
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Despite our ever-connective technology, neither Skype nor Facebook - not even a telephone call - can come close to the joy of being with loved ones in person.
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If you're a young person, like I used to be and you're at home and you're being called weird or different, I'm here to tell you your critics do not count. Their words will fade. You won't.
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I consider myself to be a very fortunate person and to have led a very fortunate life.
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I'm my own person. I'm not a yes person. So I tell it as it is. I tell my opinions and I was always like that. So I think he likes that.
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When I first started acting, I had all these ideals about the kinds of roles I wanted to play, but the reality is that when you do television - and I do a lot of television - you get cast for qualities that you have as a person. So I look for qualities that I like to portray.
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It's easier for me to act in Spanish, but as soon as I get the lines in English and I know them by heart, it becomes really easy. You don't have to worry about the language anymore. It just takes more time. In Spanish, I can learn lines in 10 minutes. In English, it's going to take an hour.
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For most of the guys, killings got to be accepted. Murder was the only way that everybody stayed in line. You got out of line, you got whacked. Everybody knew the rules.
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The business of life is to enjoy oneself; everything else is a mockery.
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The saddest songs are written when a person is happy.
