Warren Hellman Quotes
I'm one of the people who believe the great lines come from either Western or bluegrass music.
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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
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I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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I had always been feeling uncomfortable in my mind about giving advice to others and not acting upon it myself.
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Today, computers help us making the music. It's really a tool.
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I don't see a lot of nature in L.A. Then again, I don't see a lot when I go back to St. Louis, either.
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You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously. You will find peace not in denial, but in victory.
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As a musician I'm about expressing what's inside, and I think everyone has a song in them that they need to get out, whatever their gig is.
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In the sudden absence of husbands, fathers, brothers and beaus, white Southern women discovered a newfound freedom - one that simultaneously granted them more power in relationships and increased their likelihood of heartbreak.
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English, as a subject, never really got over its upstart nature. It tries to bulk itself up with hopeless jargon and specious complexity, tries to imitate subjects it can never be.
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The funkiest housing in Holland is for low-income, and I think that's very nice.
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I don't think because you have money you have taste... Education and money - this is quite rare. No?
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Food can become such a point of anxiety - not because it's food, but just because you have anxiety. That's how eating disorders develop.
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Christianity is not about religion. It's about faith, about being held, about being forgiven. It's about finding joy and finding home.
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'You told your mother I was gonna blow you up with a fucking pumpkin bomb? What did she say?' 'She. Was. Terrified. She wants me to move home.'
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The blood will follow where the knife is driven,The flesh will quiver where the pincers tear.
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There's lots of incredible roles out there that I'd love to tackle, but there's a select group of actors I find myself gravitating towards, like Philip Seymour Hoffman or Sean Penn or Daniel Day-Lewis - real transformational actors.
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When I get bored, I get into trouble.
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As parents, grandparents, uncles and aunts we need to start getting out into nature with the young people in our lives. Families play a key role in getting kids outside.
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I don't listen to anything when I'm writing. I need total quiet, which is astounding, given that I spent years working for a newspaper and having to write features surrounded by ringing phones and people shouting.
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I tell young people who ask me about a future in writing not to go into it unless they get married to someone rich.
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You English are like mad bulls... you see red everywhere! What on earth has come over you, to heap on us such suspicion as is unworthy of a great nation. I regard this as a personal insult... You make it uncommonly difficult for a man to remain friendly to England.
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I'm one of the people who believe the great lines come from either Western or bluegrass music.
