John Prine Quotes
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I'm not an architectural composer.
Harrison Birtwistle -
To be very honest, I never thought I would graduate from high school. I got very lucky to get into an alternative high school, which really saved my butt.
Langhorne Slim -
Think of the wonderful circles in which our whole being moves and from which we cannot escape no matter how we try. The circler circles in these circles.
E. T. A. Hoffmann -
Nothing really happened - I was elected in '86 - until 1992, and that's when the Anita Hill debacle happened.
Barbara Mikulski -
Riches begin in the form of thought.
Napoleon Hill -
Having an identity that is specifically linked to your age or how you look would definitely set you up for pain because these things will change. If we have a broader sense of who we are, our identity never becomes threatened.
Anthony Robbins
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When you're doing martial arts, you feel like you can master certain skills and be so much more in control of who you are, so that really appealed to me.
Milla Jovovich -
If I get hungry, I get cranky on air.
Cenk Uygur -
There's no sort o' mistake in little Bullet. He can pick up miles on his feet, and fling 'em behind him as fast as the next man's hoss, I don't care where he comes from. And he can keep at it as long as the sun can shine without resting.
Augustus Baldwin Longstreet -
The only two kinds of books could earn an American writer a living are cookbooks and detective novels.
Rex Stout -
I wanted it to be like a high quality, drive-in movie.
Rob Zombie -
My first film goes into production in October. It's called White Boy Shuffle and it's based on a novel about a young black kid and it's sort of reminiscent of Catcher in the Rye.
Ryan Phillippe
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A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….
William Faulkner -
The color of a person's skin had nothing to do with the content of their character.
Michael Jackson -
The British people rejected politics as usual and government as usual. They want and need a new approach to running this country.
Michael Gove -
In 'The Violinist's Thumb,' I talk about the poignancy of cells leaking across the placenta into both the mother and the child.
Sam Kean -
Happiness Is A Warm Gun not about heroin. A gun magazine was sitting there with a smoking gun on the cover and an article that I never read inside called 'Happiness Is a Warm Gun.' I took it right from there. I took it as the terrible idea of just having shot some animal.
John Lennon The Beatles -
Professors of the Dismal Science, I perceive the length of your tether is now pretty well run; and I must request you to talk a little lower in the future.
Thomas Carlyle
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You must go deeper into Russia - 150 kilometres from Moscow or more, and look there. The kids are fed with cattle feed - people don't get paid for half a year.
Alexander Lebed -
You can't leave the thing that you are, the house that has become your biography.
Iain Sinclair -
Oftentimes, if a writer really gets her hooks into me, I'll want to read interviews, or listen to an interview, or read a literary biography or a memoir of some kind. And doing so almost always deepens my enjoyment of the author and her work.
Brad Listi -
I think of the Bible as an unauthorized biography.
John Prine