Muddy Waters Quotes
There's no way in the world I can feel the same blues the way I used to. When I play in Chicago, I'm playing up-to-date, not the blues I was born with. People should hear the pure blues - the blues we used to have when we had no money.
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I'm not a very technical musician at all.
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There is no button that you push and the next day you become independent.
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Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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I'm not a power person. I like everyone to be on an equal footing.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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I like seeing girls throw down.
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You have to find something there that relates to the characters and reality on some level.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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Getting into Sundance is such a big platform for a director.
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I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
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Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.
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I certainly feel sad about the alienation from my son.
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If you look at any normal organization, the CEO is the person with the highest E.Q. The person with the highest IQ is often in the back room running the financials or the operations. That's topsy turvy.
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I dedicated my 20s, my passion and energy to the name 'Rain.' I always did my best, and I thought if I did, it would eventually show, and even if it didn't turn out well, I wouldn't have any regrets.
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A lot of people quit looking for work as soon as they find a job.
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I think that our comfort is in our history.
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A brief short story may require only a few paragraphs after the climax. On the other hand, in his massive novel 'The World According to Garp,' John Irving's denouement consisted of 10 separate sections, each devoted to an individual character's fate and each almost a story in itself.
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Let us seize the special opportunity that is ours to act boldly and decisively at a time when the eyes of our fellow citizens, both present and future, are upon us.
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I like restraint, if it doesn't go too far.
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I love having my ghosts, and I love having my memories.
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I had just begun an M.A. in Creative Writing, and I had to write a novel, so I began writing a novel that later became 'A Life Apart.'
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There were a lot of times people would do my makeup, and it would be awful, and I would be orange. Nothing matched. So then you learn how to do your own makeup. I watched a lot of YouTube videos when I was little and taught myself.
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There's no way in the world I can feel the same blues the way I used to. When I play in Chicago, I'm playing up-to-date, not the blues I was born with. People should hear the pure blues - the blues we used to have when we had no money.
