Tyler Farr Quotes
I knew what I wanted to be, but I didn't know exactly how to get there. I thought you move to Nashville, you sing downtown, and someone discovers you, and you become a country music star. I had no idea.
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If you saw a dog going to be crushed under a car, wouldn't you help him?
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America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.
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No matter how beautiful and loved a cover may be, the jury on it remains uncommitted until the book has been in the world for a while. Perhaps bookstore buyers will be indifferent. Perhaps it will be lost on store shelves. Perhaps there's another book or two out there using the same or a similar photo.
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I am not saying we are categorizing Ellen White in the biblical context of a false prophet.
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When I pull into a city and I rent a car and it's Nashville, or it's London, or I'm driving in the taxi to the hotel, and on comes one of my songs, it's like, 'Oh my God, they're still playing these songs on the radio.' And you still feel tearful and very grateful that somebody still likes these songs that you made up.
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From my point of view, I'm a totally normal person! Really! I have a family. I have kids. I have a house... I don't have a dog.
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Fortunately, the music from the first record really connected with people, and I was really proud of that.
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Sure, I've been a victim, but in retrospect, most of it has been of my own making. I allowed it to happen.
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I never lose confidence. As soon as you lose confidence, you're done.
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I had an excellent math and physics teacher in high school named T.C. Patel, and in the university, I had truly dedicated professors in both physics and mathematics who gave me a sound foundation with which to pursue graduate studies.
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I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has.
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I've been grateful that 'Time's' reach and mandate is so broad; anything you're interested in, you can usually write about.
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By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.
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It is not my duty to spend my money in my country, but it is what I want to do. There is nowhere else I would like to invest.
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I am one of maybe three people in the world who knows anything about Robert W. Chambers.
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If I'm not happy with what's going on, I try to change it myself.
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I'm trying to work, be diverse and multi-talented.
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It's easy to say, 'I'm going to build something that already exists,' but it's difficult to clearly and succinctly describe something new.
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It's just hard to have a nuanced discussion with like a thousand people, 30 of which are white-power skinheads.
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Hitch your wagon to a star.
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When times are tough, people want to escape to somewhere fantastic without having to pay actual escape-to-somewhere-fantastic cash. And offering a couple of hours away from the ordinary is what the movies do best.
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Rough Riders took 13 weeks to shoot, plus a week of training. The same guy trained us trained the cast in Platoon. Except, instead of radios, we used bugles to signal.
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I knew what I wanted to be, but I didn't know exactly how to get there. I thought you move to Nashville, you sing downtown, and someone discovers you, and you become a country music star. I had no idea.
