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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It’s sad when people are stupid.
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Nothing can motivate me any more than I'm already motivated. It just can't happen. Me being motivated was never a factor. Never.
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Discussing coronation ceremonies with Vidal, 'I quickly moved on to...the moment when two masons appear and ask the newly crowned king for instructions as to his tomb. 'Masons? Masons! Yes. You one? I'm one. But I've forgotten all the odds and ends. Dull, really.' (Vidal, Palimpsest, 206)
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One of the real ways out of conflict is humour. It builds bridges; it's a weapon against rigid ideology, narrow thinking, intolerance.
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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.
