Jackson Browne Quotes

And my dad wanted me to play the trumpet because that's what he liked. His idol was Louis Armstrong. My dad thought my teeth came together in a way that was perfect for playing the trumpet.

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• I don't think the Taliban will ever come back to take Afghanistan, no.

  

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• Being taken seriously, for a young writer, is a wonderful form of encouragement, but at the same time, I don't think one should ever feel like attempting a kind of artistic endeavor is beyond your scope just because of age or inexperience.

  

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• Those who really value Ukrainian sovereignty should opt for real independence and a positive neutrality: neither a plaything of the West nor Moscow.

  

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• You must respect people, and you must respect money. My father said to me: 'When you respect money, money will respect you.'

  

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• I love the look of full brows that aren't perfectly done - eyebrows on fleek: that's the goal.

  

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• I think 'Rockstar' is more dear to me than any of my other films.

  

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• I can't read novels while I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in.

  

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• For me, playwriting is and has always been like making a chair. Your concerns are balance, form, timing, lights, space, music. If you don't have these essentials, you might as well be writing a theoretical essay, not a play.

  

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• Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness.

  

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• The bad reviews get to me, believe me.

  

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• If you taste something, you're not at the maximum of your ability. What I think about in competition is temperature and texture. It has nothing to do with taste or emotion.

  

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• Talking to other people who make low-budget movies, everyone kind of has the same struggle.

  

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• I'm a world expert on superhero comics. I think maybe only Michael Chabon knows more than me.

  

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• As a universal history of philosophy, the history of philosophy must become one great unity.

  

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• An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought.

  

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• And my dad wanted me to play the trumpet because that's what he liked. His idol was Louis Armstrong. My dad thought my teeth came together in a way that was perfect for playing the trumpet.

  

  Jackson Browne
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