Gary Allan Quotes
I've never listened to an album once I've finished it. All I hear is what I should've done different. I beat myself up over it.
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When I was in college, I studied business because I thought I wanted to be a director and producer.
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The beauty of kids is they don't care who you are, which is why people like the Obamas like them so much - they treat them like normal people.
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GIS is being influenced by and integrating with all kinds of new innovations such as faster computing, big data, the cloud, smart devices, and distributed processing.
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My personal style reflects my music. My music and how I dress is just how I express myself; it's just me. My music is urban pop, and my style of dressing is urban but still girly. I like that combination. The contrast is very nice.
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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.
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I think success is very hard work, so, you know, if you work hard and you have some success, you have to give up something.
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I like Baudelaire's sentences quite a lot. I read and re-read him very often.
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I learned that instead of relying on and imitating American music, there is a better chance for an Asian artist to succeed if he or she follows his or her own culture.
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Once I discovered how important writing music was to me and just what a huge weight it lifted off of me, I knew that it was going to be the biggest part of my life, the biggest love of my life, the biggest thing in my life.
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I always tell people I went to the Harvard School of Comedy in front of America.
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No, but it's not because I'm getting older that I'm trying to accelerate. But something very curious is happening: The older I get, the more ideas I'm getting.
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No matter who you meet in life, you take something from them, positive or negative.
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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
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They wanted to audition people for the Middle East correspondent on 'The Daily Show.' They wanted to hire somebody ethnic for that slot. Helms had left, Cordry had left, and they felt that they needed an ethnic face. So, I went in and auditioned, and I got the job.
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Capital isn't scarce; vision is.
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The Afro-American is thus the backbone of the South.
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I went to about one frat party a year. A year seemed to be enough time for me to forget how much I didn't like frat parties, and my friends would eventually convince me to go to one. Cheap beer, guys looking for a quick hook-up, and girls playing 'dumb' to get in on the hook-up. I just never got into it.
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Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
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I didn't just work at a hardware store. I went to college for a second, and I worked there on breaks or during the summer.
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I'm just really excited to be doing what I love, and I think that's the best part about all of this.
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The movies have got more corporate, they're making fewer movies in general, and those they are making are all $200-$300m tent-pole releases that eat up all the oxygen.
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My sense of myself is that I'm a character actor, and character actors are ready, willing, and able to do anything, to be totally different from themselves. That's my job, to be ready. I'm some kind of first responder.
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Blaming alleged victims is not okay, no matter whose side starts it.
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I've never listened to an album once I've finished it. All I hear is what I should've done different. I beat myself up over it.
