John Prine Quotes
My music has been called so many different things over the years. I figure as long as it's selling, call it what you want.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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I never felt a need to manipulate my career from the outside - try to be someone I wasn't to get ahead.
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You eat and sleep it all day long and play on the streets until mom calls you in. My story is no different than anybody else's.
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Wouldn't it be grand if we thought that theater could have that impact on the political life of a country?
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I want to be the Letterman of metal. I want five nights a week, Monday to Friday, 11 to 12, live. I always shoot for the moon.
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I know I'm not a conventional beauty. You can read a lot of painful things on the Internet, which criticise you aesthetically - but as far as I'm concerned, that's not what an actress is.
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Very few of the early Italian humanists were really humane.
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My show is my statement. What I have to say is on the screen. My life is my own. I don't want to talk about my private self. Why should I?
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This is the way I think about politics: We want two diametrically opposed things from a politician. On one hand we want them to be bastions of moral integrity, perfect people, saints. And on the other hand, we want them to be effective leaders.
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In every European nation, there have been problems in history when the society was too divided.
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As you get older you play in more important games and that is when you start thinking about what will happen if you win or lose.
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I know that I'll end up being a role model for many, many people out there for all kinds of reasons.
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Television is what it's always been. The best of times and the worst of times at the same time.
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Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
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We could have a budget that brings Americans together.
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I am the face of a refugee. I was once a refugee. I was with my family in exile.
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I'm a better editorial cartoonist by default because so many editorial cartoonists out there are so awful.
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Sand dunes are almost like ready-made buildings in a way. All we need to do is solidify the parts that we need to be solid, and then excavate the sand, and we have our architecture. We can either excavate it by hand, or we can have the wind excavate it for us.
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In the beginning, there was noise. Noise begat rhythm, and rhythm begat everything else.
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What I am trying to do is something different - an effect of reality, but what some fools call Impressionism, a term that is usually misapplied, especially by the critics who don't hesitate to apply it to Turner, the greatest creator of mysterious effects in the whole world of art.
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Central to being an actor is pretending, and the adventure of it all. That's why you become a junkie for different kinds of situations.
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The art of the colorist has in some ways elements of mathematics and music.
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A women knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in the right, will keep on talking.
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My music has been called so many different things over the years. I figure as long as it's selling, call it what you want.
