J. D. Souther Quotes
I never even held a guitar until I was 23 and living in California, but then loved it. I'm really not an accomplished instrumentalist. Maybe that has something to do with why I write and sing.
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I want my shows to be eerie and mysterious.
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I am trying so hard to live in the moment and enjoy it while it's happening, because it feels like a moving freight train that I just got on, and I'm trying not to look back and get dizzy!
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I've actually done a lot of comedy.
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I'm such a fan of Shailene Woodley, so I'm super excited to see all her stuff. She's an awesome actress.
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I've never chased the dollar, I've always chased the reader's heart. I love having more readers. The more people who read it, the more thrilled I am.
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Once I actually get in the studio and I start working, I'm fine, but it's just getting there and these hours of torment with myself and self doubt, thinking 'I'm useless' and 'Who am I, conning myself into thinking I can do it again.'
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I think, from the very beginning, I always knew that I needed to get out of Malaysia and do my thing somewhere else.
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I've worked with homeless kids, kids in foster care, and I've never met a kid who couldn't be reached.
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As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing.
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I do not want to do a role which is similar to the previous one or the concept and the genre.
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Over the years, God and St. Therese have kept me going no matter how bad things were.
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The best way to hold a man is in your arms.
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Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?
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I have absolutely no desire and no thought of quitting ever.
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Patents have a place in medical science - for new inventions that advance the state of knowledge.
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When I paint, some things come out, and I don't know. Maybe it's because I have such talent as a painter.
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Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.
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The ethos of most films is that you make a film, you exploit the community, you exploit the environment, and it's OK because you made a great film, you know?
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We build schools and give government loans and grants to college kids; for those of us who are parents, tuition will often be the last big subsidy we give the children we've raised.
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Don't take my advice. Or anyone's advice. Trust yourself. For good or for bad, happy or unhappy, it's your life, and what you do with it has always been entirely up to you.
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If you listen to Giuliani, it's like nobody did anything to improve the city except him. I'm not part of the history. Bloomberg's not part of the history. It's like, he did it. He's the only one. That's why he's a little crazy.
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There were so many stories about Bing's daughter living in sin. We weren't hurting anyone. We were living in love. I couldn't understand why people were trying to hurt us and hurt our families.
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All the writers and producers around us that gave us the environment where we could play. They were able to provide us with a place where we could take chances to play with things, go against the grain and do things that people don't always do.
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I never even held a guitar until I was 23 and living in California, but then loved it. I'm really not an accomplished instrumentalist. Maybe that has something to do with why I write and sing.
