Gary Clark Jr. Quotes
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I didn't think much about batting average when I was playing.
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Music was a big outlet for me. Being able to play an instrument and sing was definitely a good way for me to escape things I was dealing with: family issues, growing up, being a kid and not knowing what I wanted to do with my life.
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New Yorkers - the people are so honest. If you're sucking on stage, they'll let you know.
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I'm not a party guy. I don't carouse very much.
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You can't just let nature run wild.
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It's well proved economics that if a country which is rich and a country that is poor come together in global trade, sooner or later the standard of living of the poor country will go up towards that of the rich country.
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Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the other way when Lebanon is being destroyed right next to them. Their neighbours are being murdered, but they only make calculations for their own benefit.
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Political stories in general are tough. They just don't appeal to as wide an audience.
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As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.
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The big tragedy in baseball is that the amateur spirit has gone out of it to a large extent.
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I'd love to do all types of film, not just comedy, although I love comedy.
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Right now I'm doing four shows at a time, trying to read four outlines every week, four scripts every week, and watching four rough cuts; it's a lot of good work. It's fun to do it, but it does wear you out.
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You can't get anywhere without the people who have come into your life.
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People don't really want reality. They want theater, and that's different.
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I've had my run in with trouble. Fortunately, you know, one slap on the hand is usually the last time for me... I learned my lesson.
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It's true that I have always been very comfortable with numbers.
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Giving people some kind of control over what they do is important. Human beings don't do their best work under conditions of control.
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When someone says something in an interview, the beauty of Twitter is that it's a platform for instantaneous response.
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I'd like to work with kids in special education - younger kids.
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That all you got, George?
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It wasn't a class system where I was the better guy and he was the second-rate guy. That was his role and my role was to play the solos. But he took great pride in his technique as a rhythm guitarist.
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Some people are uncomfortable with silences. Not me. I’ve never cared much for call and response. Sometimes I will think of something to say and then I ask myself: is it worth it? And it just isn’t.
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I'm so boring that press kind of leave me alone now. People will believe what they want to believe anyway.
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You could say I'm a laid-back kind of guy.
