Levon Helm Quotes
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I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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I never thought I wouldn't succeed. Not because I thought I was good-looking - I just thought I would make it.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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Now that I have kids, I don't want to do so many daredevily things anymore.
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The list of my favorite experiences would almost equal the list of plays I've been in. There are a few exceptions, but out of politeness I'm not going to mention them. If you don't have a few stinkers, you can't appreciate the good ones.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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I'm not courting labor. I come from a labor background. To me, it's just intuitive.
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The nature of creativity is to make space for things to happen... We can drive it out with our busyness and plans.
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Sometimes, America, when something's too bad, we don't want to look at it. We want to turn our head.
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I had admired Richard Burton for years and years before I had ever worked with him. He was a great, great actor. It was a joy to get to know him as a person.
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A closed mind is a dying mind.
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The thing that I think a lot of guys need to know how to do is not take your mother's advice about honesty being the best policy. Listen to your cool, drunk uncle who tells you to lie. Those are the relationships that last.
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When I was seventeen, I worked as a counsellor at a co-ed sleep-away camp for eight weeks. I loved it but it could be harrowing - it was far too much responsibility for someone my age.
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Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.
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I didn't grow up in one of those restrictive Christian households where you couldn't do this or that. We were brought up with a great collection of good morals and good values, but we also had fun. We'd go to church on Sunday, but then have ice cream, roller skate or play in the park afterwards.
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I'm not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I'm doing.
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I've always wanted a 'Full House' reunion, so when you see stuff like this comes back, it's super exciting.
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I'd always been a big reader, and I loved books, and I always thought writing would be a great way to get by in the world.
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It was difficult being a conscientious objector in the 1940's, but I felt I had to stick to my guns.
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And I think that I'd be a natural for scoring horror movies.
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If my drug Ragaglitazar had been successful, we would have been getting royalties of thousands of crore rupees every year.
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If it doesn't come from your heart, music just doesn't work.
