Judd Nelson Quotes
The movie that's had the most effect on me is Jaws. To this day when I'm in the ocean, I'm hearing that music.

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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts.
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I wasn't that hard. I wasn't that tough. I wasn't that funny – I looked like me.
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I usually get up between 7 A.M. and 8 A.M., have coffee, and go right to work. It's really important not to get sidetracked in the morning so I'm still in that dreamy state for my writing.
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Sometimes, I sit down to sketch at the unearthly hour of 3 in the morning!
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It puzzled me that other people hadn't found out, too. God was gone. We were younger. We had reached past him. Why couldn't they see it? It still puzzles me.
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I'm not surprised by hardly anything anymore.
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The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do that, all the other things will come; if you don't, there's no hope for you.
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I play guitar, the ukulele and the piano. I grew up on a mountain in Tennessee, and we had 'The Mountain Opry,' where anyone could just get up on stage to perform. It was just about the soul and heart of music. My upbringing was less about being great and more about just doing what you love. It was always for joy.
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If you watch dogs play, they run and they fight, but they don't fight to hurt each other. They just play. And that's been me my entire life.
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I learned music from a book on piano theory. I was only interested in knowing about chords. From that, and from the 'Harvard Dictionary of Music,' I learned everything I wanted to know.
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We should never have a doubt about Taiwan's independent status. Taiwan has been an independent and sovereign country since 23 March 1996, the day of its first direct presidential election.
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(on whether he is bipolar.) Wow, what does that mean? … What's the cure? Medicine? Make me like them? Not going to happen. I'm bi-WINNING! I win here and I win there. Now what?
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Prayer is good: but when used as a substitute for obedience, it is naught but a blatant hypocrisy, a despicable Pharisaism.
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I never wanna settle; I never wanna be complacent - I gotta outwork everybody.
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You've got to find ways to breathe while you're dancing so that when it comes time for you to stop and sing again, you have it.
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The starting line of the New York Marathon is kind of like a giant time bomb behind you about to go off. It is the most spectacular start in sport.
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If nothing else, I have money.
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My first album didn't come out until I was 27, which in pop years is late, you know. But when it came time to arrange it, I became a kid in a toy shop. I had a harp and a saxophone quartet and a symphony orchestra. I went berserk for a time.
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I knew when I got to play with Al Jackson I would be a better bass player because he was the best drummer in the world. I worshipped him.
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During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always work.
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We have to promote a movie. It's just extraordinary that everybody I'm talkin' to loves this movie.
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I have bought a lot of beautiful clothes with my money, but I've also earned it.
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I've been in the States and fought before. When I'm in that changing room, I'll feel as if I've been in that situation before. Obviously I'm going to have to deal on the biggest stage, and it's the Dallas Cowboys Stadium, but it doesn't faze me.
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The movie that's had the most effect on me is Jaws. To this day when I'm in the ocean, I'm hearing that music.