J. D. Souther Quotes
The power of network television is amazing. I've been performing for years but have been seen on only a few episodes of this show, and people spot me in public now all the time. They say, 'Hey, aren't you on 'Nashville'?' Most locals seem to really appreciate how authentic the show is.
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I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey.
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I voted for Barack Obama.
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Most actors go, 'I read the script and fell in love with it'; I fall in love with the directors.
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I even have a Harmony Rocket and a Stratocaster with a scalloped neck back in Florida.
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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For me, it's always been very essential to work on projects that one can work on almost for their entire life.
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In the '80 Olympics... people expected me to win. I was good enough to win, and I made a mistake and ended up second, which is pretty good, too.
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No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.
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I have a 60-acre farm in North Carolina, and I have a tractor and a farmhouse. As soon as I groom the land, I want to put cabins around and have a place where people can write and hang out. It'll be either that or an all-black nudist colony.
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I don't know whether the universe contains any evidence of intelligent design, but I can assure you that thousands of everyday products do not.
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I used to have the very standard worldview. I can easily identify with people who see computers getting faster and smarter, and technology getting more and more beneficial, without seeing the other side.
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I know exactly what it's like to stand on top of a tall building or in a high place and look down and go, 'Ohhhh my God.' I try to get into that place every time I write a scene like that. And definitely when I write the action scenes, I get overheated and my heart goes really fast. I get very involved.
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I love wearing men's clothing and underwear.
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I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.
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In New Orleans, music is part of the culture. You're raised with it, from the cradle to the grave, and all in-between.
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Working with kids can be tricky because they can be pretty unpredictable.
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I've been writing stories since I was a kid. I love writing stories.
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Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president, from a murderous general or a beloved leader, I see power as an inhuman and hateful phenomenon.
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Relationships are hard, so you have to know what type of man you want by your side and what their values are, what is important in his life.
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Coming back in that AFC Championship Game against the Steelers, that was a poignant moment for me for a lot of reasons - the magnitude of the game and having not been able to play for quite a while and to be able to get on the field for that game. That one stands out.
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That is a real attitude - to see everything as being meaningful, even the less important things, to prove something, even the greater problems of life.
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I guess a lot of people don't like talking.
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Never in the history of the world have so many people been so rich; never in the history off the world have so many of those same people felt themselves so poor.
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The power of network television is amazing. I've been performing for years but have been seen on only a few episodes of this show, and people spot me in public now all the time. They say, 'Hey, aren't you on 'Nashville'?' Most locals seem to really appreciate how authentic the show is.
