Merle Travis Quotes
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I think in a play it's wise to just sit back and watch other actors and be able to shape it from the audience.
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Behaviour arises from the level of one's consciousness.
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I remember praying for peace all the time as a kid.
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The idea is a straightforward one. We provide an account for every newborn in America, a $500 account.
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Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
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All the criticism and all of the praise, it doesn't - it's not worth the salt that goes on my bread, because TV is fickle. You can be loved one day and hated the next day. One day, you're getting an award. And the next day, you're getting a death threat.
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I think younger readers connect so readily to animal characters because they share a certain vulnerability, particularly when it comes to adult humans, who can be a rather unpredictable lot.
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Sometimes I hate a shoe in seconds.
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I used to have a rant all the time when things went wrong, at everybody around me, because you just have to get the frustration out.
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I try to get to the gym whenever I can, eat healthy, mostly protein and vegetables, avoid processed sugar and minimize carbs, but I don't feel like I need to go crazy if I want pasta now and then.
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All we ever intended for him or expected of him was that he should continue to make people everywhere chuckle with him and at him. We didn't burden him with any social symbolism, we made him no mouthpiece for frustrations or harsh satire. Mickey was simply a little personality assigned to the purposes of laughter.
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Cocaine isn't habit forming. I should know - I've been using it for years.
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God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness.
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Neither I nor anyone else knows what a standard is. We all recognize a dishonorable act, but have no idea what honor is.
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Rich people in one country don't act the same as rich people in another country.
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I must've got whacked on the head. He presented a totally false person for me to fall in love with.
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I've worked with wonderful actors like Marlon Brando and Henry Fonda.
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Obsession remains the price of creation, and the writer who declines that risk will come up with nothing more creative than 'The Foxes of Harrow' or 'Mrs. Parkington.'
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Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president, from a murderous general or a beloved leader, I see power as an inhuman and hateful phenomenon.
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When I was a teenager, me and a couple of my friends entered a couple of modeling competitions just for fun, and one of those got me an agent in Sydney.
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I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin.
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But words have been used too often; touched and turned, and left exposed to the dust of the street. The words we seek hang close to the tree. We come at dawn and find them sweet beneath the leaf.
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I never try to be the poster child for the perfect mother/wife... You prioritize, you do the best you can possibly do, and you don't beat yourself up.
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I have known the fruits of strikes. The bitter and the sweet. Hunger and music.
