Randy Houser Quotes
My little boy, West, and my wife, they're my rock and that's the thing that keeps driving me to do better at what I do professionally. There was a time in my career where I had been on this huge roller coaster ride and I'd really got in the spot where I could've hung up it and just been a songwriter.
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I know what to do and I go and execute.
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Burroughs called his greatest novel 'Naked Lunch,' by which he meant it's what you see on the end of a fork. Telling the truth. It's very difficult to do that in fiction because the whole process of writing fiction is a process of sidestepping the truth. I think he got very close to it, in his way, and I hope I've done the same in mine.
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The second I met Zac, I thought he was a really cool guy. It's hard not to have chemistry with someone who is so attractive.
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I wear the Jewish star, but I'm not - I haven't converted to Judaism, and I'm not - I'm not - I'm not Jewish in the conventional sense because the Kaballah is a belief system that predates religion and predates Judaism as an organized religion.
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Ah, sweet Content, where doth thine harbour hold.
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It is often said by religious people that without its framework, there is no sense of right or wrong. My view is that religion comes after ethics.
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The problem men seem to have, and women, too, is that they have this very structured idea that we should find a partner and settle down and be, you know, faithful. And yet clearly this is really, really hard for anybody to do!
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I believe in the free enterprise system.
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I don't watch television. I'm not a TV guy.
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My entry into the environmental arena was through the issue that so dramatically - and destructively - demonstrates the link between science and social action: nuclear weapons.
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When I was a teenager, the number one book I was most obsessed with was 'Gone with the Wind.'
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It might be, it could be... it is! A home run!
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Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?
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There are two sides to being pregnant. There is the beautiful, wonderful blessing side. The second side - it sucks!
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A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.
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When 'Midnight's Children' came out, people in the West tended to respond to the fantasy elements in the novel, to praise it in those terms. In India, people read it like a history book.
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I think that when I was child, acting was mostly just a hobby for me. It was something that my parents encouraged me to think of the way that my brothers thought of their cross-country classes, or my little sister to dance classes and art classes, and it was something like that for me.
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Everyone needs help when they try something new.
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A lot of artists don't like the sound of their voice. They're put off by it.
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I know that my fans want to know who I'm sleeping with, but it's really none of their business.
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I don't care if people know who I am or if I make a ton of money, I just love my work so much.
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The past always looks better than it was. It's only pleasant because it isn't here.
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I cannot give a single concert at which I do not play one piece after the other in an agony of terror because my memory threatens to fail me. This fear torments me for days beforehand.
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My little boy, West, and my wife, they're my rock and that's the thing that keeps driving me to do better at what I do professionally. There was a time in my career where I had been on this huge roller coaster ride and I'd really got in the spot where I could've hung up it and just been a songwriter.
