John Prine Quotes
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My mind is vacant on names, but I know him as well as anything. When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.
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We are constantly competing with the monsters from the id.
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Being black, Latino, or Asian is not a genre. Romantic comedies, thrillers, action - those are genres. I think there's a lot of people who want to have the conversation. I don't think people are afraid of it, I just think it's the time to have that conversation. Race is not a genre.
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I think the difficult thing is the transition between TV competition series and going into the actual music industry. There still seems to be a slight disconnect there.
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Comic strips are like a public utility. They're supposed to be there 365 days a year, and you're supposed to be able to hit the mark day after day.
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I get to meet different directors and different people.
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To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.
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I've always been able to just concoct a melody quite easily - it's just kind of instinct, really. You've got to channel your subconscious.
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In America, you complain about job losses because of China, but here, we carry all of the environmental costs.
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I've never had a very great public life.
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I don't see that many plays, and for me, musicals are rarely pleasing.
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My understanding, from what I've learned so far about Commissioner Gordon, is that he's the older guy with the mustache who relates with our hero in a certain way.
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I shudder at the concept of a world tamed.
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They weave a slow andante as in sleep,Scaled yellow, swampy black, plague-spotted white;With blue and lidless eyes at watch they keepA treachery of silence; infinite.
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On November 28, 2016, Abdul Razak Ali Artan, an 18-year-old legal resident of the United States whose family was originally from Somalia, used a car to mow down a group of people at the Ohio State University.
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I like my house to feel like a place where I can just lie back and say, 'Ahhhhh, I'm home.'
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There was no one in particular I really tried to copy.
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Learn, earn, return - these are the 3 phases of life. Jack Balousek There is no more noble occupation in the world than to assist another human being - to help someone to succeed.
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I took to New York life like a star shooting through the heavens.
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I believe the last thing I read at night will likely manifest when I'm sleeping. You become what you think about the most.
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I cannot say that I was a particularly diligent student, especially during the lower grades.
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Where gays and lesbians are the best organized and most concentrated in numbers are states that President Clinton must carry in order to be reelected in 1996. Among the states are California, New York, Michigan, Oregon, Washington, Massachusetts, Illinois.
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When you're singing somebody else's songs, it's just pure joy to me.
