John Prine Quotes
You get to thinking that because you've written 50 or 100 songs, you think maybe you know how to do it. But when they're not coming along, you're just as in the dark as you ever were. When they're coming along, there's nothing to it. Sometimes it's so easy, it's like you're a court stenographer.
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I used to conduct the last opera in Berlin on Sunday, get on a plane on Monday to Chicago, and start a rehearsal that same night, if it was a performance week.
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If you don't have a functioning financial system the world economy won't be revived. All the major economies have their responsibility to assist at a pace which is required to clean up the balance sheet of the banking system and to ensure that credit flows are resumed.
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We do not think clearly about our moral obligations to animals.
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I made a clean version of 'Enter the Ninja' that my mom can listen to.
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I keep on 5 to 10 pounds above my jeans weight, as the ultimate no-filler-needed refresher, and buy a size up on jeans.
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I think that in today's world, by nature, we are all self-centered. And that often leads to selfishness.
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My parents were very pleased that I was in the army. The fact that I hated it somehow pleased them even more.
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I call on the people of Tripoli to restrain themselves and not get drawn into conflict with anyone.
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I grew up in a small town where everyone wanted to be the same or look the same and was afraid to be different.
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Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next 'Gone With the Wind.'
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I'm not good at happy, lightweight kind of music. I'm not really good at pop music. 'Cars' is probably the only true pop song I ever wrote. I wish I could write more, but I'm not very good at it.
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I like to play board games a lot with my girl, things like that. We attempt to cook. And even if it goes wrong, it doesn't matter because it's the time you spend doing it that's important.
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There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.
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Our fifth premise is that the resource allocation task of top management has received too much attention when compared to the task of resource leverage.
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The meaning and design of a problem seem not to lie in its solution, but in our working at it incessantly.
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Women's greater social desirability and beauty power afford opportunities for creating both measurable and invisible income. While the opportunities are available to almost all women and some men, they are available in abundance to the genetic celebrity ... a woman so beautiful that men do more than look and talk-they follow her.
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Any politician who's ever been re-elected knows that friends come and go; enemies accumulate.
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My dad, he would go through these periods of self-doubt. We'd do something that was controversial or that wasn't welcomed by everybody, and he'd go, 'Well, Shirley, our parents cursed us with ethics, and we passed it on to our children.'
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My first Top of the Pops I didn't want to do. I was terrified. I'd never done television before. Seeing the video afterwards was like watching myself die.
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I sing the 'Star Spangled Banner,' so I can get into football, basketball and baseball games for free.
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I'm a big fan of British cinema; I think we make some unbelievably brilliant films, but they can quite often have a dark feel.
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It seems like whenever a big newspaper or TV show talks about teen literature, they focus on dark books or vampire books. It's kind of this cliche. It seems like the only time adults pay attention is with that angle.
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You get to thinking that because you've written 50 or 100 songs, you think maybe you know how to do it. But when they're not coming along, you're just as in the dark as you ever were. When they're coming along, there's nothing to it. Sometimes it's so easy, it's like you're a court stenographer.
