Roger McGuinn Quotes
But in my imagination this whole thing developed and I started mixing up old folk songs with the Beatles beat and taking them down to Greenwich Village and playing them for the people there.
Quotes to Explore
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There is a recurring temptation for any nation, and for any writer who operates within its field of force, to make an ornament of the past: to turn the losses to victories and to restate humiliations as triumphs.
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I think blogging is a muscle that most people wear out.
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Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.
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Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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It's no secret that I've been reluctant to use my name for things.
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I tell you, 'Firefly'? Best job I ever had. Heartbroken when it was canceled, but had it not been canceled, I never would have gotten 'Serenity'. I think 'Serenity' is the most incredible thing I've ever been able to actually get my hands on and do. I can't even tell you how much love I have for that project.
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When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.
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I made a very slatternly mother, notably unkeen on housework, unaware that homes need to be cleaned now and then, and too often to be found with a cigarette in one hand and a drink in the other.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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I guess there are all these women with a big secret - they're hiding men they are ashamed of. They come up to me and say: 'I've been dating this guy for six months in secret but none of my friends know. I can't give him up even though he's embarrassing.'
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Taxes on capital, taxes on labor, inflation, bureaucratic regulation, minimum wage laws, are all - to different degrees - unnecessary slices of the wedge that stand between an individual's effort and reward for that effort.
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I started out doing musicals.
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Don't believe those tales you hear about my being all-in. Wait until you see me in action for your team and then form your opinion of my worth to your team. I assure you that I am delighted to be a Pirate and that I will do my best to bring another pennant to the Smoky City.
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I developed this - I don't know, like a burning love, almost, inside of me that I just wanted to get up, and I just wanted to skate every single day and get better.
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It is not length of life, but depth of life.
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I'd probably play games obsessively if I didn't write, although I admit I don't read novels partly because I don't enjoy it, not just because it's the wrong side of the creator-consumer barrier for me. I'm a visual writer. I think in moving 3D images and write down what I observe.
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Our job as writers is to listen, to come home to the four corners of the earth.
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My biggest issue is hyperpigmentation and evening out my skin tone.
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I've always been somewhere down from the top, so I've never had to suffer being knocked off the top.
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I've turned down projects based on raunchiness before.
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The songs are really stories and so you can tell them at any time in your life.
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I've written songs sober and I've written songs high.
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But in my imagination this whole thing developed and I started mixing up old folk songs with the Beatles beat and taking them down to Greenwich Village and playing them for the people there.
