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 don't think I ever thought of growing up to be anything other than a musician. There really wasn't a plan B. Well, a kind of a distant plan B was to be a Formula One driver, but there really wasn't an entry point.
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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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I was a mother who worked ridiculously hard to keep catastrophe at bay. I didn't allow my kids to eat hamburgers for fear of E. coli. I didn't allow them to play with rope, string, balloons - anything that might strangle them. They had to bite grapes in half, avoid lollipops, eat only when I could watch them.
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The Exorcist has been a very interesting cross to bear.
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These facts make the creator of music a being like the gods, and make music itself the supreme mystery of human knowledge.
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The most appealing thing to me about food is combining and layering flavors, tastes, and textures. So the perfect sandwich has to be toasted. It has to have Emmenthal Swiss cheese and a combination of sweet and savory - some cranberry or fig thing happening - with different kinds of meats like Black Forest ham and roast beef.
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Put me in a costume, and I'm your man. I must have one of those faces which seems to suit period drama more than modern films and TV programmes. But I'm not complaining, I love going back in time. I feel quite lucky because nobody knows who I am. I can walk about and have ordinary conversations with people.
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I have known the fruits of strikes. The bitter and the sweet. Hunger and music.