John Prine Quotes
Howie Epstein was a kind, patient, and extremely talented musician. He took two years out of his life and dedicated his undivided attention to the making of two of my records. Those records changed my life thanks to Howie.
Quotes to Explore
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Self-esteem is a powerful force within each of us... Self-esteem is the experience that we are appropriate to life and to the requirements of life.
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Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life.
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If someone saves your life, you develop a brotherhood, no matter what your race.
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Dictators are ludicrous characters, and, you know, in my career and in my life, I've always enjoyed sort of inhabiting these ludicrous, larger-than-life characters that somehow exist in the real world.
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In the '50s and '60s, the life of a gay man was a secret. Homosexuality was illegal, so you didn't draw attention to yourself.
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Suddenly women's lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.
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I have always been interested in theater, as an actor and as someone who looks upon theater - at the risk of sounding pretentious - as an icon by which we measure society... My life has been in the theater to an extent. It's only an extension to write, direct, produce, whatever.
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And I never thought this life was possible,You're the yellow bird that I've been waiting for.
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That's part of the reason Rex drafted me, because I value this job. It's my life. If somebody wanted to take that away from me, it's personal.
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I see songs not as a commodity used up when the album goes off the charts, which is often the case with pop songs. I see them as a body of work. Life should be breathed into them.
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I've been fortunate to be short my entire life. There's only one position I've ever had to play, and that's point guard. So I've always had to be that leader. And that was my job: you know, to talk.
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I prize my seamstress, I value my copyist; but my cook, who knows well how to prepare the food to sustain life, and nourish brain, bone, and muscle, fills the most important place among the helpers in my family.
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All my life, since I was 16, I've been wondering where that next job was gonna come from.
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I want to be ripped apart by music. I want it to be something that feeds and replenishes, or that totally sucks the life out of you. I want to be dashed against the rocks.
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I have been on the receiving end of many blessings in my life, few as great as having known George and Barbara Bush.
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It's a life-changing thing to be in a position of needing help and being so lucky as to get it.
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I am always aware that I've had a special and privileged life, yet it has been balanced by tragedy as it has been for so many others.
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What I try to do is find a language for life.
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Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because life is sweet and they are growing.
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Events alone rarely provide much guide to the future.
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Ask the locals. They can point you in the direction of the area's shopping district where you'll be sure to find something different and unique that pleases you.
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As a feminist, just to speak to what women go through, I think women are put in a box way too often. What I love about 'You're the Worst' is that no female character is portrayed as a black-and-white cartoon character. We're all complicated, messy human beings.
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If some guy said this to me, I wouldn't listen either, but one-rep max-outs are the dumbest things you can do to yourself.
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Howie Epstein was a kind, patient, and extremely talented musician. He took two years out of his life and dedicated his undivided attention to the making of two of my records. Those records changed my life thanks to Howie.
