Garrett Atkins Quotes
I am a big guy and happen to play a position that requires you to be relatively quick. I can't let up now. I have to work every day to be better next year.
Quotes to Explore
-
You know Nashville, there's people that are ten times more talented than me, ten times better singer than me, song writer than me, but for some reason you get the ball and now - and now you run with it. And you do the best you can.
-
I'm writing in English; I'm writing for a Western audience, but the people I'm surrounded by in my daily life are mostly non-white.
-
I've often said that all poetry is political. This is because real poems deal with a human response to reality and politics is part of reality, history in the making. Even if a poet writes about sitting in a glass house drinking tea, it reflects politics.
-
I study what's happening in music. I want to sound different than everybody else.
-
Love is not just tolerance. It's not just distant appreciation. It's a warm sense of, 'I am enjoying the fact that you are you.'
-
Like many people in Britain, I have an affectionate respect for the Queen, and am surprised that I should be having such republican thoughts.
-
The bottom line of Hollywood is money.
-
But as long as you're creating the art you want to create, if people start liking you, you shouldn't have to apologize. You want your stuff to be heard by as many people as possible.
-
When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.
-
I was deep in the zone of practicing almost constantly.
-
To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
-
It's not the winter that bothers me – it's the summers.
-
The great musicians are those who can reach people, who can make people feel something.
-
Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.
-
I think it's natural for a creative to be sensitive. If I'm in the studio and I write something, I think it's the greatest thing in the world; it's like my baby. I just made something out of thin air that exists now in a tangible form. It's the biggest thrill in my life.
-
I did tennis for a while, and I was actually on the volleyball team for a minute.
-
When you get to 15 and most of your teachers are priests, there's bound to be a conflict.
-
Some people say I'm conscious, some say I'm a gangsta rapper – it's just me doing me. I'm stomping in my own lane. I'm doing what I do.
-
One thing I want you to understand is if I make a decision, it's my decision.
-
I'm totally fine with people criticizing me in shows... people like this show, or don't; you're entitled to your opinion. But when people are criticizing you as a person, I have to say it's a little bit different.
-
If anyone comes to the gates of poetry and expects to become an adequate poet by acquiring expert knowledge of the subject without the Muses' madness, he will fail, and his self-controlled verses will be eclipsed by the poetry of men who have been driven out of their minds.
-
A lot of people don't know that I'm really a silly guy. I don't take anything seriously. It takes a lot of energy for me to take something seriously.
-
Everyone knows I'm just a big, good-natured slob.
-
I am a big guy and happen to play a position that requires you to be relatively quick. I can't let up now. I have to work every day to be better next year.
