Delbert McClinton Quotes
Every generation thinks their music is the ultimate. But there's great stuff from every generation.
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At least I want to be making films that are somehow born out of me that are stories I want to tell. The challenge is figuring out how to do it where you can make them personal, yet still deliver to an audience a film experience that is satisfying and emotional, and that's what I'm trying to do.
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I never felt popular as a child and never had best friends.
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I think that for a child to be in a household... with a situation where the parents are not married, as in being one man and one woman, is not the best household for a child.
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I want to be judged by who I am, not by a relationship.
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Good science fiction is always based in contemporary truths.
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I've done a lot of Super Bowls and appeared in a lot of big, big events and places and the Masters and what have you, but there was nothing as intimidating as speaking with Billy Graham.
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If anybody's getting a shot, somebody's getting a shot against me because I'm the guy to beat.
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My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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I had heard about how people struggle and how hard it is to get into acting. But I did not care because it's something I love.
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It's just this little comedy about this group of guys, and their local hangout is a pool hall, and it's starting to get taken over by this big corporate, evil kind of guy. And it's just about them trying to save the day and their little pool hall in the process of it all. It's called 'Think Tank.'
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Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.
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I consider myself absolutely a character actor, and that's what I want as a career. I don't need to be the lead star or any of that, as long as I'm doing stuff that I'm proud of, really.
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I would sit on the street corners in my hometown of Indianola, Mississippi, and I would play. And, generally, I would start playing gospel songs.
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I was never a monist - always a diversitarian.
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Let no man posture as an advocate of peace if he proposes or supports any social system that initiates the use of force against individual men, in any form.
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When I was younger, I was addicted to the idea of becoming a rapper.
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I can explain that shot. Arnold moved his wallet to the other pocket.
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I have had a career in which, almost without exception, every single person I've worked with has helped me.
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Sometimes when you really try to be earnest, everything disappears. If you really try to make a romantic movie, the first thing that goes out the window is the romance or real passion. It suddenly becomes cute-ville or cozy-ville. It's another world other than life.
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I have wandered over Europe, have rambled to Iceland, climbed the Alps, been for some years lodged among the marshes of Essex - yet nothing that I have seen has quenched in me the longing after the fresh air, and love of the wild scenery, of Dartmoor.
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And you're not happy but you're funny and I'm tripping over my joy. I just keep on gettin up again.
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Every generation thinks their music is the ultimate. But there's great stuff from every generation.
