J. D. Souther Quotes
I think I've been influenced by everything I've ever heard. The first thing I ever heard was my grandma, who was an opera singer. The first song I ever learned was the 'Nessun Dorma' from Puccini's 'Turandot.' My father was a big band singer, so I used to hear him walking around the house singing standards all the time.
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I miss having my mom and close friends around. Thank God for Skype and Face-Time, which keep me connected... but interacting digitally can't come close to the feeling of being hugged by my mom or getting together for a meal with my friends on the same table.
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My interior is very, very dense - Proustian-looking, sort of Henry James. The walls are covered in pictures, and I transformed the big drawing room into a library lined with books.
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I don't regret doing any of my films. All of them have been great learning experiences, and they have contributed to making me what I am today.
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I was a go-go dancer at the Dom on East 10th Street in NYC. This was a glittering ballroom over Stanley's Bar. 1965.
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Some players are more physical than others, some play with more finesse. Some are just really great all-around players. So you have to change your game.
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I do suspect that this world is hell.
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I think the films we see, the Hollywood films, which are basically entertainment, will still be there, but they'll be in a totally different category. People won't take them seriously. They'll kind of end up the way comic books have. A side view of things.
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'Dancing with the Stars' is awesome.
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My brother married young, and his is the best marriage I know.
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Effective preaching starts with loving the people we're preaching to.
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You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.
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There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart.
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A runner's stride is not perfectly efficient.
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But whether a couple is a man and a woman has everything to do with the meaning of marriage.
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We all accept the visual shorthand used throughout comics: if something's farther away, it'll be drawn with a thinner, simpler line, eventually leaving out most visual information and becoming a gesture, a skeletal representation of a thing.
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Someone tried to save my soul in a gas station.
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I don't have any outside view of myself, and if I did, I would probably be creatively inhibited. I just write in the way that I write.
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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
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Everybody is a regionalist. Tolstoy is a regionalist - one is where one lives, where one writes.
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I like movies that leave you with something to think about, to discuss, to debate, you know?
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Don't open that door," she said. "The hallway is full of difficult dreams." And I asked her: "How do you know?" And she told me: "Because I was there a moment ago and I had to come back when I discovered I was sleeping on my heart.
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I don't change. The things around me change.
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I think I've been influenced by everything I've ever heard. The first thing I ever heard was my grandma, who was an opera singer. The first song I ever learned was the 'Nessun Dorma' from Puccini's 'Turandot.' My father was a big band singer, so I used to hear him walking around the house singing standards all the time.
