John Prine Quotes
I think if you write from your own gut, you'll come up with something interesting, whereas if you sit around guessing what people want, you end up with the kind of same schlock that everybody else has got.
Quotes to Explore
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It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum.
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The main thing I want to do is make people feel more connected and more active.
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
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Although the French were very friendly and helpful. On one location we were to film at the top of the Eiffel Tower but we couldn't, as it was so misty with four inches of snow on the ground. We couldn't see a thing but we finally got it done.
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I wear a lot of boyish stuff, but I prefer to throw a fur coat on top just for the hell of it.
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Apartheid is inherently a practice of violence.
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I like performing in front of big crowds.
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If I made a musical in the beginning of my career, it would have been crane shots and tracking shots and people coming out of cakes and whatever, but these techniques are something that I've left behind me.
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I'm not sought after. I never get enough work. It's the history of my career. There just isn't anything to turn down, let me put it that way.
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Writing a book, you can only get stopped by yourself.
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I'm not a stone-thrower when it comes to Hillary Clinton and her emails and her server. I don't think there has been criminal intent on Hillary Clinton's part. I don't see an indictment.
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Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement.
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Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
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I started playing guitar at, like, 12 or 13 and just rock bands mostly. I had a punk rock band and hard core bands and all that.
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I remember when I was a freshman in college, I was still somewhat bothered by... worried... about religion. I remember going to this professor of philosophy and telling him that I had lost my faith.
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When the script for 'Once' came my way, I had the thought that maybe it will last only a season. But I was willing to take that risk.
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Hollywood is in love with any kind of nostalgia that can prove itself to be commercial.
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You're always carrying something that's interfering. It's like static noise that doesn't have to be there, and you have to school yourself to clean that out.
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There's nothing greater in the world than when somebody on the team does something good, and everybody gathers around to pat him on the back.
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People forget the punk thing was really good for women. It motivated them to pick up a guitar rather than be a chanteuse. It allowed us to be aggressive.
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When we shift back to feeling the sensations in our body and connect to what's in front of us, the creative channel opens up.
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My name means 'hope' in Spanish and it's a name I want to live up to.
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It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.
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I think if you write from your own gut, you'll come up with something interesting, whereas if you sit around guessing what people want, you end up with the kind of same schlock that everybody else has got.
