Eric Church Quotes
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I'm big on manners. I'm big on politeness. I'm big on gratitude.
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I have a baby that is 21 months old, and I watch Disney Junior with him. A lot of those shows are about pirates. Even the T-shirts and pajamas I buy for him have pirate themes like, 'Aye-aye, argh and mate.' But, I definitely grew up watching pirates.
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I think when you compete every week, when you play under pressure daily, you find your rituals to be 100 percent focused on what you're doing.
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Desperation is the perfume of the young actor. It's so satisfying to have gotten rid of it. If you keep smelling it, it can drive you crazy. In this business a lot of people go nuts, go eccentric, even end up dead from it. Not my plan.
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I am musical and I enjoy theatre, but I never wanted to just do theatre. I always wanted to go into film. I love film. I loved growing up in the theatre, but I always wanted to do film all along. But, I still pursue music separately.
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I'm very ambitious, but I also love myself - which means I try to take care of myself.
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In a way, it's good not to be recognised as much off screen.
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South African literature is a literature in bondage. It is a less-than-fully-human literature. It is exactly the kind of literature you would expect people to write from prison.
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Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
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Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.
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I try to keep away from being big-headed. That's what causes people to lose the acting thing. They start being commercial, and then they stink for the rest of their lives.
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So I consider myself a dog person. Kind of. Had dogs when I was a kid, but my parents would never have dreamed of having them in the house.
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We have a history of great producers - ABBA and Max Martin - we have proof of people being successful from Sweden.
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I have been to hell and back. I have seen the edge. I have seen the dark side of life.
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I think glamour is synonymous with me.
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It makes you feel at home when you can talk to somebody and really talk about anything.
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My life was on the line here and my career and everything I worked for, it was hanging by a thread.
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I am a straightforward man.
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If we don't believe in moral absolutes and then we get into a cultural-political debate, how are we going to win?
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The money from Iraqi oil will be yours - it will no longer be used by Saddam Hussein for his own benefit.
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I think that a classic style in writing tends to remove the reader one level from the immediacy of the experience. For any normal reader, I think a colloquial style makes him feel more as though he is within the action, instead of just reading about it.
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A Texas upbringing - and living now in Brooklyn, too - have surely helped my appreciation for open spaces and skies, but beyond that, it's not easy to find words for what it feels like to be up in the Rockies or out on the Great Basin - such silences and spaces! - or to be heading up into the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
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Action films are emotionally and physically draining, and you're dirty and sweaty. In a romantic comedy, you have to have your fingernails perfect, you're in air-conditioned rooms the whole time.
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I can't stand making records.
