Al Jardine Quotes
My family and I reside on a non-working farm, although we have a couple of horses and the usual stuff like pigs, cows, and chickens. We really don't have an honest-to-goodness farm, more of a hobby farm.
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A sack is way better than any nightclub. A touchdown is way better than any bar experience I've ever had.
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Writing is challenging work because it's so easy to get consumed with how it's going, what's going to happen to it, who's going to like or not like it. You want to get all of that stuff out of your head and just let the work flow.
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It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.
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I work so hard, but... everything just goes my way! It's insane!
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You have to find something there that relates to the characters and reality on some level.
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Hits and flops are overrated.
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Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate.
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To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.
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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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For a while, I became an atheist; now that I'm grown up, though, I'm not hard-edged enough to be an atheist. Even though I live with a flaming atheist, I love going to temple. I love all the rituals.
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I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.
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The more women serve in executive office, the more confidence they gain in themselves and that voters gain in them.
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Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
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And I started as a journalism major at Ohio State, ended up in theater and I love to read.
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You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.
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Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
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If I'm saying a universal truth, but maybe it's something that people don't feel comfortable saying... It's a strange take, but at the same time, what you're hitting on is kind of right. You can relate. That's the heart of comedy. You have to have a point of view. You gotta commit. And the more you commit to it, sometimes the funnier it gets.
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I set the goal of getting a book contract by age thirty.
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My grandpa was in the Navy, but it wasn't something that was expected or planned for me to do.
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There’s no doubt that there’s some folks who just really dislike me because they don’t like the idea of a black President.
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I suppose I am a frustrated musician so I annoy my family by playing guitar in the house. I used to be into acoustic stuff but my son Joseph is learning drums, so now I have an electric guitar and we play Metallica. We have an amp and a PA in the garage with his drum kit.
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I love being part of the ASCAP family of songwriters and composers.
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You could not have predicted the amazing discoveries at Pluto, even though we have been to a couple of objects in the solar system that were at least a little analogous to Pluto.
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My family and I reside on a non-working farm, although we have a couple of horses and the usual stuff like pigs, cows, and chickens. We really don't have an honest-to-goodness farm, more of a hobby farm.
