John Prine Quotes
Along the way, we have had some wonderful adventures and have met thousands of dedicated fans - indeed, many of them feel like family to us now.
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I got lucky. I won the San Francisco Stand-Up Comedy Competition in 1977 while I was still at San Francisco State.
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It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.
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The only way reliably to gauge the heat of any particular chilli is to cut it in half, so exposing the core and membranes, and to dab the cut surface on your tongue.
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For me, California is all about rest, relaxation, space.
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If you really love someone and care about him, you can survive many difficulties.
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The more I learned about Shoeless Joe, the more I felt he was maligned.
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My parents were atheists, strong atheists. I never got the answer 'God.'
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I like to leave a film open-ended, with a lingering feeling. I'll not do sequels of any of my films till I have subjects to explore.
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I think one of the most boring things is a person's taste.
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Nobody has ever convinced me that ancient aliens have visited Earth. Not even close.
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I approach 'Fast & Furious 6' the same way I would approach a Sidney Lumet film. Getting into character's getting into character.
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I would watch the remaining 12 or so episodes of 'Breaking Bad' I haven't seen by noon tomorrow, but my wife would kill me. I watched all five seasons of 'The Wire' in a month, and she was not happy about it.
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The first time I ever got paid to play was 1/18/99, Fire Hall in Bordentown, New Jersey. Played first on the bill - we got paid $20!
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Louisiana commenced her existence as a state under a code of laws differing from all the other states which were founded on the common law, in that its code, a new one, was founded mainly on the Civil Law and the Code Napoleon of France.
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If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.
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If you think about photo sharing sites, the mobile photo sharing and social, there's no competitive advantage, there's no obvious business model, so I never play with anything like that. I avoid it like the plague.
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I don't respond to authority figures who abuse their authority.
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When I edit, I'm not from the school of Hello, I'm a genius, so everybody shut up. I'm from the school of Let's play it once in front of an audience, and then I'll tell you where it is going.
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There's something about a new family moving into the White House that's kind of interesting, even if you didn't vote for them.
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I de-stress with my family, just at home pruning roses, cutting, working in the garden.
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Online, you show how brilliant you are by manipulating the language of the Internet.
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Some people in my family achieved a lot, some people inherited a lot. But I turned my back on the whole thing.
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I read a lot of short fiction, like Kurt Vonnegut and Raymond Carver and Wells Tower.
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Along the way, we have had some wonderful adventures and have met thousands of dedicated fans - indeed, many of them feel like family to us now.
