Gary Rossington Quotes
With life and grandkids and the whole thing, every day is busy, but I'm so thankful to God that I'm still here.
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When you like something and you're pretty good at it and you can make a living doing it, you don't ask why. You just count your blessings and go with it.
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How much do you engage yourself in what's truly real and important in life? That's the individual question.
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I just want to do my job.
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I believe in the impossible because no one else does.
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I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.
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One of the best essays I've seen in recent years was by a young woman who wrote about how being chosen to choreograph a high school musical forced her to assume a leadership role she wasn't sure she was ready for - but of course she was.
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From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.
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An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought.
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I feel like I'm a good actor, but I wouldn't call myself a gifted actor.
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The joy is in the getting there. The beginning years of starting your business, the camaraderie when you're in the pit together, are the best years of your life. So rather than being so focused on when you get big and powerful, if you can just get the juice out of that... don't miss it.
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When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.
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For better or worse, a lot of people who build things don't want to part ways. They don't have the short exit plan that a lot of the investors have.
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I just love a challenge, and always have, and will do anything to make it interesting. I'll try anything, really, as long as it's a challenge and you can have some fun doing it.
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Even as I think of myself as a 'rememberer,' I also know my memory is probably doing all this work to reconstruct a narrative where I come off better.
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I really hate drama. It's draining; it's mentally draining. It's a waste of time.
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I will know him by his eyes.
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That's the thing with sci-fi and action roles. You have to play the danger as real. If you don't, you end up with egg on your face. You have to commit. You can't think about how stupid it might look without the special effects.
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Human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires.
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I believe in God and a higher power. I'm still not the religious type per se because religion tore my family apart. I'm still a little scared and skeptical being one with any faith.
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People can undergo a sudden change of thinking and loyalties under threat of death or intense social pressure and isolation from friends and family.
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The cynic says, 'One man can't do anything.' I say, 'Only one man can do anything.'
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No one can make the most of himself until he looks upon his life as a magnificent possibility, the materials for a great masterpiece, to mar or spoil which would be a great tragedy.
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A blowtorch is a wonderful thing. You can get one of those for about 25 bucks at Home Depot. And there's a ton of things that you can use a blowtorch for, in browning a steak or touching up the browning of a chicken or making creme brulee.
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With life and grandkids and the whole thing, every day is busy, but I'm so thankful to God that I'm still here.
