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.
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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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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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I could do terrible things to people who dump unwanted animals by the roadside.
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The notion that moving toward renewable energy will kill jobs is an absurdity on its face. The notion that we have to live smaller lifestyles; not have the American way of life or give up the American Dream is just ridiculous. It is the opposite of the case; a new energy paradigm will create opportunity.
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To me, the most interesting films are films that take very strong points of view and bang them up against each other and let sparks happen.
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I was very careful never to take an interesting job. If you have an interesting job, you get interested in it.
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For 10 days after the Olympics, I couldn't go back to my house because people were sitting outside waiting to take my photo. That was a bit rubbish. At first I was open: 'Yeah, of course you can take a photo...' but after a while, it got to the point where I thought, 'Whoa, I don't like this attention anymore.'
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I will admit, it's so intoxicating working with Steve Carrell. Creatively and professionally.
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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.
