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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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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I write a book a year while creating TV and film projects. And being a writer isn't just writing: I have to chase down paychecks and manage foreign tax payments. I maintain a vibrant relationship with readers and bloggers. And when it comes to Hollywood, I typically have to have fifteen business meetings in the hopes that one leads to a project.
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In the summer of 1956, my mother was pregnant with me, which caused my father to confess his fear that I was going to be too much of a burden for him because he had a history of depression.
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When you're imagining peace, you can't kill anyone. That's good isn't it?
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There is no art which one government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people.
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If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule.
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We went on the opening weekend [of Star Wars], a group of us went out and just popped into a couple theaters just to see people in the theater watching the movie, and it was incredibly gratifying just to see the thing out there being watched by people. And the reaction was more than we could've expected.
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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.
