Waylon Jennings Quotes
This time if you want me to come back, it's up to you.But remember I won't allow the things you used to do.You're gonna have to toe the mark and walk the line;This time will be the last time.
Quotes to Explore
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I wanted to be an author for as long as I can remember.
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But Buddy was an upper. He was happy. He loved music, and he was really happy. I don't know... I don't believe in reincarnation at all, but if all that stuff is true, then he might have been on his last time around.
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I'm always trying to find 'connections' between things. That art is the juxtaposition of a lot of things that seem unrelated but add up to something recognizable.
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I wrote 'Criminal' in 45 minutes when everyone else went to lunch because I had to have a hit. I can force myself to do the work, but only if someone is right up behind me.
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I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.
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Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.
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You don't have to spend much time in Shanghai before you start to get all existential about the meaning of authenticity. Did you know that Shanghai is building nine satellite towns, each designed to mimic the architecture and culture of a different country?
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Women basically want the same thing - a good passionate story, a great fantasy - and for our partners to do the laundry and the washing up.
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I'm not going to get into the writer's skills or what he was trying to portray because that's not fair. I can only say what I felt was trying to be portrayed there.
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To catch the ball, face up, look at all of my options and then pass. I was playing hot potato. I didn't want to be the guy to stall the triangle.
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I definitely think being a young girl, there's a time where - like when you're in middle school or when you first start liking boys - you don't really feel comfortable. You remember that time when you first got your period, or when your boobs started coming in, that you were like, 'This is weird.' You have to grow into yourself.
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I never felt I had the kind of relationship with Magic that I could just pick up the phone and call him at home.
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There is no age better than another. The commitment to give of yourself and the knowledge that the time is right are what's important.
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I never write my stories as a wake-up call as such. I simply explore the kinds of situations that I find personally challenging by placing characters into situations that challenge them in similar ways.
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I always want to go back and do stand-up; I like the freedom.
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That's the era we grew up in. It's weak to go to a psychiatrist.
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It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.
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Writers want publicity all the time, and they are always nagging their agents and publishers to give them more publicity, but, when you get it, it's kind of soul-destroying.
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I can write all the way through the morning, when my mind is clear, and there are no distractions.
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There must be some one quality without which a work of art cannot exist; possessing which, in the least degree, no work is altogether worthless.
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I grew up in this poor place, with very limited circumstances, at about 16 years of age was sent by my family to work, and instead of remaining in the position into which I was sent, I somehow worked my way out of it without any help from anyone, just luck.
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Now, I look at where I am now and I know what I wanna to do. What I would like to be able to do is to spend whatever time I have left and to give, and maybe some hope to others.
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There are these moments in the military where you're present at these enormous intersections of history and humanity. I came out of the end of that, and I just wanted to write. If you do it well, you know it will last. It can't get blown away like everything else.
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This time if you want me to come back, it's up to you.But remember I won't allow the things you used to do.You're gonna have to toe the mark and walk the line;This time will be the last time.
