Ralph Stanley Quotes
I've done it all. I'm thankful and proud of what I've accomplished in my life. I hope to keep doing it.
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I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.
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I remember reading the cruelest, most awful thing about my hair online. A person speculated about who I was as a person and even read into my personal life based solely off my hairstyle. He or she said I must be lazy because I have short hair. It was just devastating.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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I just want to do my job.
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I believe journalism or news will migrate to the online medium.
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But I think we need the international market.
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Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.
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An actor has to embody a role.
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The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.
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If you believe that your thoughts originate inside your brain, do you also believe that television shows are made inside your television set?
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There have been times in my life when I felt compelled to write things down as a matter of therapy, but whatever I kept about those days, I shredded. It was too personal.
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I don't trust that many people. Just my mother and my wife and a couple of friends. When I trust people, it doesn't end well.
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The best piece of advice that my mother gave me is to never have a plan B. She told me to stick to plan A because if you have a plan B you will inevitably fall back on it.
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Enjoy every sandwich.
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With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.
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I feel like, when I'm 100% healthy, I can do anything.
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Working on the accent helped, enormously. I will tell you that when I brought Michael a correct 'British' accent, one that my dialect coach was happy with, he hated it.
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Even if I only had 10 readers, I'd rather do the book for them than for a million readers online.
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When I was in school I liked math because all the problems had answers. Everything else seemed very subjective.
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I'm definitely not a guy that comes in the dressing room saying, "Hey, everybody, what a wonderful life." I'm usually brooding about something I think is wrong. I care so much about getting the music right, and if I think someone's slacking I get very upset about that. I just can't go on stage and say, "Another day, another dollar," which I've heard a few people say: I can't go along with that at all. It's got to be as good as you can do - to my own detriment.
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I think you just have to accept the fact that no one lives forever, and eventually things are going to come to an end, whether it's a TV show or life.
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I think life is all about having a balance, and trying to find equilibrium and not getting things one way or the other.
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I've done it all. I'm thankful and proud of what I've accomplished in my life. I hope to keep doing it.
