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.

J. D. Souther

• Why
• California
• Loved
• Living
• Guitar

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• I want my shows to be eerie and mysterious.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Want
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  • Mysterious

• 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!

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • Live
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• I've actually done a lot of comedy.

  

  Natalie Zea
  • Done
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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.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • People
  • Heart
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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.'

  

  Imogen Heap
  • Thinking
  • Myself
  • Doubt

• I think, from the very beginning, I always knew that I needed to get out of Malaysia and do my thing somewhere else.

  

  Yuna
  • Think
  • Always
  • Beginning

• I've worked with homeless kids, kids in foster care, and I've never met a kid who couldn't be reached.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Kids
  • Never
  • Care

• 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.

  

  Karl Rove
  • People
  • Good
  • Education

• I do not want to do a role which is similar to the previous one or the concept and the genre.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Want
  • Role
  • Genre

• Over the years, God and St. Therese have kept me going no matter how bad things were.

  

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  • God
  • Bad
  • Me

• The best way to hold a man is in your arms.

  

  Mae West
  • Man
  • Way
  • Best

• Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?

  

  Natalie Clifford Barney
  • Men
  • Why
  • Wise

• I have absolutely no desire and no thought of quitting ever.

  

  Barbara Cook
  • Desire
  • Thought
  • Quitting

• Patents have a place in medical science - for new inventions that advance the state of knowledge.

  

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  • Science
  • Knowledge
  • Medical

• 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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  • Know
  • Talent
  • Paint

• 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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  • People
  • Life
  • My Life

• I struggled with being a broke college graduate, and while all my friends were getting career jobs, I was working horrible part-time jobs. That's why now, even when I get tired, I think, 'This is what I asked for.'

  

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  • Time
  • Why
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• Every time a blast happens, people ask, 'But why would someone do this?' Weirdly, it hasn't been answered well anywhere - neither in fiction nor non-fiction.

  

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  • People
  • Time
  • Why

• I don't listen to the news or read newspapers. I don't know what's going on in this world, or why I should vote for George McGovern or Richard Nixon. I don't have enough time.

  

  David Cassidy
  • Time
  • World
  • Why

• Clothing enables people to self-express, and that's why variety, when it comes to our wardrobe, has become more and more important over time.

  

  Jennifer Hyman
  • People
  • Time
  • Important

• What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Desire
  • Space
  • Innovation

• 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.

  

  J. D. Souther
  • Why
  • California
  • Loved