Gary Rossington Quotes
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Clark Gregg and I are around the same age. He has been an actor and is a writer. But with a first-time director, there is a way to talk about things they might not know. Because Clark was an actor, though, he knew more about the process than most first-time directors.
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If our hard-earned liberty, our desire to be irreverent of the old and to question the new, can be reduced to one, basic and indispensable right, it must be the right to free speech.
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Often it seems that there are writers who are their best selves on the page. That Seamus Heaney was as genuine and deeply admirable in person as in his poems was to me a gift, then as now.
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My books cover many aspects of daily life through which your children will recognize their own relationships in their families and communities.
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We have no chance to comprehend what goes on there - it's so dramatic, and people are so poor. We all felt bad about being there. Filming in India felt like we were going to borrow something knowing that we were never going to give it back.
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There's nothing bad that accrues from baseball.
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The notion of being on a cop show was appealing, just because it's one of those tick boxes in a career.
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I'm a go-hard type. It's in my DNA. I physically prepare my body as if I'm a trained athlete. After the shows, I sit in an ice tub and do a hot dip, cold dip, and sometimes I sit in a hyperbaric chamber to rejuvenate my energy.
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There isn't a dude outside my dad who had greater influence on my life.
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I knew that with a mouth like mine, I just hadda be a star or something.
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Literary scholars end up being some kind of storyteller, too.
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When you call people we you find it easy to be unfair to them, since you yourself are included in the condemnation.
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It is an act of evil to accept the state of evil as either inevitable or final.
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Crime is increasingTrigger happy policingPanic is spreadingGod know where we're headingOh, make me wanna hollerThey don't understand.
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(to Niall) 'Help!' 1
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Avant-garde artistes such as respondents remain entirely free to épater les bourgeois shock the middle classes; they are merely deprived of the additional satisfaction of having the bourgeoisie taxed to pay for it. It is preposterous to equate the denial of taxpayer subsidy with measures 'aimed at the suppression of dangerous ideas.'
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I often turn to my books when my own writing is having a hard time.
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I say that a myth is a story which has particular energy, mythic resonance. I always say that a myth is a tear in the fabric of reality through which all of this spiritual energy pours.
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When somebody says, 'Action,' I act. When they say, 'Cut,' that's my job. I've done it.
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Rather than a teaching tool, I think a novel is more of a witnessing entity. A witnessing entity? What is that? I just want the reader to step in and experience it as a story.
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Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.
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Every cannabis user is a medical patient whether they know it or not.
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I feel like, with most filmmakers of my generation, I like the over-the-top stuff. I like to be wacky and really in your face.
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I sound like an old bullfrog when I sing.
