Michael Nesmith Quotes
James McMurtry is a true Americana poet - actually he is a poet regardless of genre...
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Everybody feels better about himself, his community, and his country if employers are paying workers well. Economics, though, teaches that if every employer is pressured to raise wages, some labor will be priced out of the market.
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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.
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When I dealt with set theory, I could never make it be the music that I wanted.
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I love how easy it is to run my business, Writing Workshops Los Angeles, with the help of email and my website. I love that I don't have to use cuneiform, a quill, or a typewriter to write my novels - I love to write on my laptop!
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Working in a bar was a horrific idea for me.
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I was born in Burnsville, Minnesota, and raised in Eagan, which is right by Burnsville. I've been in that area my whole life.
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It's better to make fun of yourself because you've always got someone around to make fun of, and they can't sue you.
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I'm excited about 'Luke Cage' with Michael Colter, who plays Luke Cage. I play the villain, Cottonmouth. It takes place in Harlem. It'll just be amazing for people to get to see an African-American superhero, which there weren't any when I was growing up.
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Don't underestimate the value of doing nothing, of just going along, listening to all the thing you can't hear, and not bothering.
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The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad.
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I'm sure that had I not been a coach, I would have been some form of a teacher.
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We put forth proposals. They are still on the table, ... They have yet properly to be considered by the other side.
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I was a child, and my mother was psychotic. She loved me, but I didn't really feel I had a mother. And when you live with somebody who is paranoid and thinks you're trying to kill them all the time, you tend to feel a little betrayed.
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I don't like a lot of things like [Iraq], I never did. Being in a position of celebrity and having your words carry such unnatural weight...I've always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing.
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We are all guilty in someone's eyes. More so our own.
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Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.
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I never thought I would be standing here, married to an All-American guy, living in Oklahoma. What a country.
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When schemes are laid in advance, it is surprising how often the circumstances will fit in with them.
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To live within limits. To want one thing. Or a few things very much and love them dearly. Cling to them, survey them from every angle. Become one with them - that is what makes the poet, the artist, the human being.
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Superstition is the poesy of practical life; hence, a poet is none the worse for being superstitious.
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James McMurtry is a true Americana poet - actually he is a poet regardless of genre...
