Alan Autry Quotes
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I throw ideas out into the open when I really should just be writing them down in a journal.
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When I go a stretch without tweeting, I will occasionally get an email from my mom, checking in. I always find this amusing but also gratifying: Thanks to Twitter, I can keep in touch with my parents and let them in on what I'm doing in a way that even the regular phone calls of a doting daughter can't do.
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There have been a lot of exercises and I've had to force myself to go out for walks even when I didn't feel like it, but apart from that, I am a lot better.
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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I did as much research as I could and I took ownership of this illness, because if you don't take care of your body, where are you going to live?
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I don't have time to listen to anybody's music. I'm making it, you know.
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The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.
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I don't understand why there aren't more powerful female directors. I don't have the answers, but I hope that things may start to shift and that studios will employ more women to handle strong and interesting material.
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Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
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I look at my music in the beginning, and the sexual songs, the partying songs, those are the realities because those things happen.
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Everybody in America who didn't come over the Bering Strait ice bridge stole his land from somebody else.
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And it really is a good feeling to get up there and make that sound. I'm not stuck in a time warp, because I can use as many of the old songs as I want to, just the favorites.
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I don't read as much as people may expect. In fact, sometimes I feel that I should probably read more, but then I do believe that one of the big problems of our times is that there's too much reading and not enough thinking.
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I'm not versed enough in constitutional law to run for office. I'd have to go back to school or something.
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When people don't have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.
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Our minds want clothes as much as our bodies.
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I always tend to think of all of my shows as possibly my last show. I'm like a junior Springsteen, without the underbite.
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No one reads my books until they're finished because I don't want feedback. It confuses me, and it changes things; if I get too much feedback, I get thrown off my path.
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I got great sex education, and I always knew that if I wanted to be sexually active, I had to have safe sex.
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I think education is power. I think that being able to communicate with people is power. One of my main goals on the planet is to encourage people to empower themselves." Another "I was raised to believe that excellence is the deterrent to racism and sexism. And that's how I operate my life." And another "It does not matter who you are or where you came from. The ability to triumph begins with you. Always.
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My mom was an amazing singer and music was a big part of my life, so I grew up listening to Nat King Cole, Johnny Mathis, Henry Mancini; I used to watch 'The Andy Williams Show' on TV. I was very musical, so I was watching stuff that most kids my age wouldn't be interested in.
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The micro-compositions are the pieces themselves, but the macro-composition is the whole set of them and how it moves from track to track and how the titles relate to one another, for example. Always when I do records like this of a selection of instrumental pieces - the titles, to me, are very important.
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We need innovation in education and dedication to the task before us.
