John Prine Quotes
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To make headway, improve your head.
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Given a choice between Charlie Mingus and Eric Dolphy or Joe Strummer and Lou Reed, there was no choice. I like Reed and Strummer, but it's kiddie music.
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Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
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I am upset and completely disappointed in the government, the millionaires and billionaires in the U.S. See what's happening to the country? Look at all the health problems, the economy, the recession and crime.
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I got married very early, and in no time at all, we had three children. And it seemed to me I had an obligation to support them.
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If there are no other wonderful roles that come my way, I have a quite an interesting, dynamic life.
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Good actresses can often accomplish miracles, and it is possible to be someone you've never been or will be. But in a sitcom, there's no time.
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If you're clever enough and creative enough to get a good film made, then you should be clever enough and creative enough to find ways to get it out there, one being something like Jameson First Shot.
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The real force of Silicon Valley is the mentality, the spirit. There's no reason at all that can't be replicated in Paris.
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The majority of actor kids are really competitive. But Gabby Sidibe on 'The Big C' has been a big help to me. Her career went from zero to a hundred in about one second, so she's warned me what to expect.
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I write about heartbreak because I like writing about sad things, but I'm writing happy songs, too!
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Neither conservatives nor humorists believe man is good. But left-wingers do.
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Let’s say this together: 'Great me no greats', and leave this grading to posterity.
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Sometimes I don't know what takes me over during a game. Sometimes I just feel I have moved to a different place and I can make the pass, score the goal or go past my marker at will.
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When I get anxious and scared, I probably lose my temper more than I should.
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To win the major, you have to play two weeks your best tennis and deal with a lot of things around, to put things together so to be really focused.
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You can't swing with hesitation; you can't try to steer the ball to the flag; you can't worry about that water hazard as you take the club back. You have to pick the right club, visualize the shot you want to hit, and then focus on that shot until the ball is gone.
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I've played in small markets; I've played in big markets. For me, basketball is inside the arena. It doesn't recognize what market you're in. It's about wins and losses, and that's the way I approach it.
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If you find that the reader of popular romances--however uneducated a reader, however bad the romances--goes back to his old favourites again and again, then you have pretty good evidence that they are to him a sort of poetry.
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Life must have its sacred moments and its holy places. We need the infinite, the limitless, the uttermost -- all that can give the heart a deep and strengthening peace.
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Almost all the progress ever made in human thought has been made by the Doubting Thomas's, the questioners, the challengers, the show-me crowd.
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When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
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I should have stayed an athlete, body well-tuned, cruising around with my accountant in a Porsche, maroon and chrome.
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There's only two things. There's life, and there's death.
