Victor Wooten Quotes
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I started writing half a paragraph of a mystery novel, half a paragraph there, and they were terrible.
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In fiction, too, after the death of Cooper the main tendency for nearly a generation was away from the conquest of new borders to the closer cultivation, east of the Mississippi, of ground already marked.
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I'd always gone to the theater as a child every month to see whatever was on. I think that's where the passion for it came from.
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Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen.
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I do think a carpenter needs a good hammer to bang in the nail.
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I have only so many foreign-language neurons. When I learned Spanish, that displaced whatever Irish was left, and then I learned German, and that displaced the Spanish, and when I learned Serbo-Croatian, that displaced the German. So I'm a bit of a muddle.
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The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.
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I took a bit of a back seat, I had kids and I wanted to focus on them. There's that period in the late '90s, the early 2000s, where I didn't do a great deal.
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In the long run, I believe that honesty is definitely the best policy. One can get away by being dishonest for a short term, but ultimately, honesty is what pays.
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People don't have a good intuitive sense of how to weigh new information in light of what they already know. They tend to overrate it.
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I like old Disney films that have an edge to them.
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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
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I have a brain and a uterus and I use both.
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Especially if you're over 40, shortening the term of your loan to pay it off sooner could make you mortgage-free in retirement.
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I've sung background for a couple of bands.
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Of the 25 songs we've recorded there were 24 that we wanted to have on an album. That wouldn't have worked. So when one of our wise managers suggested the idea of considering two different album, it cleared the way for us.
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An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.
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My father is very dry and very quick-witted, and my mother is very silly. It was the perfect combination because I got an education in physical and verbal comedy.
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To win a championship, you have to have a little bit of luck on your side.
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Every time we keep a child from smoking, we improve public health.
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Might we not say that every child at play behaves like a creative writer, in that he creates a world of his own, or, rather, rearranges the things of his world in a new way which pleases him?
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Spare the rod and spoil the child - that is true. But, beside the rod, keep an apple to give him when he has done well.
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I've had a lot of folks tell me that my songs weren't quite country because they didn't really sound like anybody that had come along and done it before me. I felt a little out of place for a while.
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A child playing air guitar plays no wrong notes
