Loretta Lynn Quotes
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My first 'Tonight Show' was just one of those things - I mean this seriously - a cosmic, meant-to-be coming together of circumstance. You walk out there to do your first 'Tonight Show': Is the audience going to be hot? Are you going to be on fire? It's like an athlete: Are you going to have your moves at a peak?
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I sort of write onstage. I'll throw an idea out there, like Home Depot, and just start talking about it.
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I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.
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I learned that despite having years and years of experience in math and computer science and so on, I didn't really know how to code until I formed a company.
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Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.
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The Japanese version comes with a translation, but that's different from the lyrics, so people could look things up and find a translation of their own if they're interested.
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I always said there's no way I'd work in America because I'm too weird and I'm too old, but somehow it's happened.
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Sometimes new voices have the most spectacular vision. It is uncluttered and organic.
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I'm not really a mainstream novelist!
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I'll have the chance to do a production number on A Capitol Fourth.
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I was handed a chocolate bar and an M-1 rifle and told to go kill Hitler.
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I volunteer with School on Wheels in Los Angeles, and I also tutor with Koreh L.A.
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It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.
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We are not angels, we are merely sophisticated apes. Yet we feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, craving transcendence and all the time trying to spread our wings and fly off, and it's really a very odd predicament to be in, if you think about it.
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As actors, we put in our best, but when people don't like a film, you have to learn to deal with it. I've learnt not to get too emotional.
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Measure your wealth by what you'd have left if you lost all your money.
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Seriously, who doesn't want to slap a 27-year-old movie star?
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Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.
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Part of the beauty of me is that I am very rich.
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I do not want and will not take a royalty on any record I record. I think paying a royalty to a producer or engineer is ethically indefensible. The band write the songs. The band play the music. It's the band's fans who buy the records. The band is responsible for whether it's a great record or a horrible record. Royalties belong to the band. I would like to be paid like a plumber. I do the job and you pay me what it's worth.
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Progressives want a different sort of media than what the Right wants.
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Facebook can be an accumulation of different intelligences.
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There are certain writers I can't read when I'm trying to write because their voices are so distinct. Cormac McCarthy, he's the most different writer from anything I've ever written, but there's something about those really spare sentences that is just tough - it would be too much of an influence. Grace Paley is my favorite writer. Her stuff is so voice-driven, when I read her a lot I want to make my writing more voice-y and dialogue-heavy. I love a lot of stuff in translation.
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You either have to be first, best, or different.
