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.
Imogen Cunningham -
We are constantly competing with the monsters from the id.
Walter Becker China Crisis -
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.
Adam Lambert -
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.
Garry Trudeau -
I get to meet different directors and different people.
Quvenzhane Wallis -
To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
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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.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine -
In America, you complain about job losses because of China, but here, we carry all of the environmental costs.
Ma Jun -
I've never had a very great public life.
Cameron Mackintosh -
I don't see that many plays, and for me, musicals are rarely pleasing.
Wallace Shawn -
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.
J. K. Simmons -
I shudder at the concept of a world tamed.
R. A. Salvatore
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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.
Arthur Symons -
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.
Peter Bergen -
I like my house to feel like a place where I can just lie back and say, 'Ahhhhh, I'm home.'
Elizabeth Berg -
There was no one in particular I really tried to copy.
Caroline Corr -
My key aim is to get man on the surface of Mars by the mid-2030s.
Ellen Stofan -
Documentaries deal with people who live real, everyday lives. But if these people trusted us and told us the truth about their lives, it could be used against them - which sometimes happened.
Krzysztof Kieslowski
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Even to survive and have everyone in good health now is really precious. Bands half our age don't even get that lucky sometimes. It's good to practice gratitude, as they say. I used to be so ungracious, I wasn't even aware that I should be feeling grateful! Now I actually try and put it into my daily thought: Be grateful. It's not always so easy.
Shirley Ann Manson Angelfish -
We didn't play any Joy Division songs for 10 years after the start of New Order, which was a very honourable thing to do even if it meant shooting ourselves in the foot.
Bernard Sumner Bad Lieutenant -
My first professional job was to sell heavy-duty waterless cookware.
Zig Ziglar -
Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.
Natalia Makarova -
When you're singing somebody else's songs, it's just pure joy to me.
John Prine