John Prine Quotes
I was a mailman walking in the snow six days a week, 12-hour days. Every two weeks, I'd get a check for $228.
John Prine
Quotes to Explore
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As soon as you say that there is a community called, let's say, black Americans, you've immediately created a boundary line - who's in that group, who's outside that group.
Randall Kennedy
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For me, comedy is richer and larger than anything else.
Upamanyu Chatterjee
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One result of An American Family was that I became a gay role model.
Lance Loud
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I don't really get stuck in a time warp where, if my film is a success, I have to keep partying till the next one releases, or if my film is a flop, I keep wallowing in sorrow until the next comes my way. My hard work in each film is always there.
Rani Mukerji
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All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only.
Ramana Maharshi
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I am very aware that playwrights, particularly good ones, have a intention for everything they write. Language and punctuation is used specifically, and most of the time actors can find wonderful clues about character in the rhythm and cadence of the language used.
Laura Linney
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When I left prison, I had to figure out how to embrace my past.
Fernando Flores
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Say I lived until 80 and read a book a month seriously, that means I was looking at 480 books left in my life. If I had only 480 left, I wanted to stop sifting through material I didn't have confidence in and turn my attention to those that I know merited my reading.
Amor Towles
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I always approach every play based on the cast. When Denzel and I did 'Fences,' I didn't go to rehearsals and say, 'OK, James Earl Jones did a wonderful job in '87. Let me see if you can come close to James Earl Jones.'
Kenny Leon
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If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.
Barack Obama
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Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
John Ruskin
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I was a mailman walking in the snow six days a week, 12-hour days. Every two weeks, I'd get a check for $228.
John Prine
