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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I am an analog, slide-rule kind of guy.
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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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Writers often feel obliged to adopt some sort of public appearance.
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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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You could play the blues like it was a lonesome thing - it was a feeling. The blues is nothing but a story... The verses which are sung in the blues is a true story, what people are doing... what they all went through. It's not just a song, see?
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That's what I've always loved about music, that I could go be another guy for two hours. But ultimately it all comes back to: do you have the songs, can you sing them, do you have a great band that can play them with you? You're charging money to have people come watch you play; I want them to feel taken someplace good or provoked into thinking my way for an hour and a half or two hours. I have been a provoker and I'll probably always be one in the public arena for the rest of my life.
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I came into this world the way every person on the planet does - with clenched fists.
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If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work.
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I'm Just an Old Chunk of Coal (But I'm Gonna Be a Diamond Someday).
