John Prine Quotes
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It's not that I don't want a fast car. I like the speed. I'm just not the type of person who finds a sports car a sexy car.
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Historically, the Balkans have been an incubator of war.
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Being able to walk out of the studio after a week of intense recording and jump into a cold sea and sit in a hot spring and soak for a few hours completely resets the whole system. Really refreshing. For me, it's all about stepping out of the ordinary. Even psychically.
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In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.
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As a working-class actor, leaving school with no qualifications, being a printer and then becoming an actor and then working with people who to a certain extent had had a leg up. I never had that advantage. It's less an artistic need to express myself and more a need to prove myself.
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I loved Judy Garland. I thought she was such a classic beauty. I thought she was so endearing and charming, and I loved her voice. She was such a dreamer, and I think I was, too - and I am.
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Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
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I eat super clean and am always watching what I eat.
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If you do like what you do, you're cooperating and sharing.
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I'm obsessed with Marcus Mumford. I've got to know him recently; he's amazing.
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As a writer given to the old formalities of rhyme and meter, I sometimes feel endangered these days.
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Children have a right to some stability and constancy from the adults in their lives.
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An unlocked door means that, occasionally, you might get a devil come in, but a locked door means you have thousands of angels just walk by.
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I have always been drawn to fashion from an aesthetic and consumer standpoint. I honestly never thought that I could take my business training and apply it here. I worked in retail and was into fashion. It was something I liked, and people trusted my opinion.
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If Jesus does come down out of the clouds like a superhero, Christianity will stand revealed as a science. That will be the science of Christianity.
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I've come to the realization that a lot of our problems are because of a dearth of spiritual values.
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Publicly, we're saying we're better at fighting terrorism. Privately, we know that the bureaucracy has only gotten worse, since the high-level people are scared of being held responsible for 9/11.
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Estee Lauder cologne. Sam Cooke always wore it, and I started wearing it because he wore it.
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We all approached doing a sequel with great trepidation and skepticism.
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Differences are scarier now. The dollar isn't so guaranteed if you don't follow what they see as the norm. But I don't moan about it. I just keep working.
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I grew up in a time when the only musicals were animated musicals because nobody wanted to see people to break into song.
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When I'm in the mode of feeling positive about love, I don't really feel the need to mark it down in song. In fact, I know what that song would sound like, and I would not subject anybody to that.
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I'd rather get a hot dog or a doughnut than write a song.
