Billy Joe Shaver Quotes
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And I think maybe all women, if they just had a chance, would be romantic and believe in love and not sex. And men believe in sex and not love.
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Having my animals or my children with me exorcises that feeling of not being wanted.
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People do not want words - they want the sound of battle - the battle of destiny.
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When I was a kid it was big news when someone flew around the world in a little aeroplane, but nobody cared when I did it. Then, to rub salt into my wounds, the customs people ripped my aeroplane to pieces, looking for stuff.
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On my foot it says, 'The best is yet to come,' and that's there because I really believe it.
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Well Im back in your good graces again Remember when you told me that I was your only friend?
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Between 'there is a God' and 'there is no God' lies a whole vast tract, which the really wise man crosses with great effort. A Russian knows one or other of these two extremes, and the middle tract between them does not interest him; and therefore he usually knows nothing, or very little. (Diary, 1897)
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One of the differences between HBO and other television is that they demand the same coverage that you would have in a feature film. We need to have all the shots in order to make it as rich and as stunning as it looks. We can't cut any corners.
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You don't buy experience at the pharmacy. You acquire it through games over time. Every player must go through that, but when the federation hired me, they told me they wanted new players and young players who will prepare for the future.
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One of the great things about history is that it sort of isn't a done deal - ever. The historical texts and the historical evidence that you use is always somehow giving you different answers because you're asking it different questions.
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Compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment we rise above ourselves.
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When I was working, there was no digital. We actually worked; we used Polaroids.
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You pick projects for the part, the director, and the script. I just want to do different, interesting stuff.
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I did some research into domestic violence, and there were some stories that will stay me with forever.
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In western culture, we have ignored death. We're running the other way - everything is about life and youth. So, there's something resonant about walking around with our own death masks. Zombies are the visible embodiment of death staring at us with our own faces.
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One advantage of photography is that it's visual and can transcend language.
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If you saw me as a footballer, when I played, I always showed a great passion. You saw Antonio Conte during the game showing passion.
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Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
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Grammar is to a writer what anatomy is to a sculptor, or the scales to a musician. You may loathe it, it may bore you, but nothing will replace it, and once mastered it will support you like a rock.
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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
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As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.
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Eighty percent of my pieces gravitate towards an A, as a tonal thing, not at the beginning, but somewhere in it.
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My own personal goal is I just hope to still write songs and kind of let that sustain me as a job. If I could never have a 9-to-5 job, and making a living doing this, it'd just be incredible.
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I'm Just an Old Chunk of Coal (But I'm Gonna Be a Diamond Someday).