Merle Haggard Quotes
My second wife Bonnie Owens and I worked together after we divorced for a period of maybe 20 years. And I managed to stay friends with another wife. And then there's one that I don't mess with. Everybody's got one of those.
Quotes to Explore
-
I was a little hesitant at first because there's so many ways you can get 'Straight Outta Compton' wrong. You know, it's such a great story; it's such a classic tale. I was a little nervous 'cause it's like a very narrow road to success with that type of story - you got to get it right - but when I read it, I was pleasantly surprised.
-
All wars, even the noblest, bring a reckoning of means and ends.
-
Doing voice-over work is something that I love to do, and it is a lot of fun at the same time.
-
It's easy to have a good season but if you want to have a great season you have got to win a major tournament.
-
I have perfectly symmetrical ankles.
-
I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand - I lived there before I was famous.
-
I think that the greatest lesson I learned from my father is just having compassion towards people.
-
I've been grateful that 'Time's' reach and mandate is so broad; anything you're interested in, you can usually write about.
-
I do not favor the gag order.
-
As far as Irish writers being great, I think the fact that there have been two languages in Ireland for a very long time; there has obviously been a shared energy between those two languages.
-
Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
-
I'm very observant and very instinctive. In life, you have to have the vulnerability to accept when you are to blame. And I do have that, and I am open enough to say it.
-
It is odd there are many movies with many men. But generally movies have one woman, or maybe the older woman and the younger girl.
-
I can't design anything unless I'm excited by it, meaning I have an urge to wear it.
-
India has large proven reserves of gas that remain unexploited.
-
It's definitely a necessity to make split-second decisions when you're doing gymnastics because things don't always go perfect.
-
I loved the writing process. I loved it.
-
I think that horror, in general, is fairly popular. It's definitely popular in film. There's just not a lot of good horror on TV, so whenever there is good horror on TV, people rush to it.
-
Unfortunately there is nothing more inane than an Easter carol. It is a religious perversion of the activity of Spring in our blood.
-
You know, I was a nerdy kid going through high school, and then I got to college and that all vanished. I mean, a lot of my good friends - when we were in high school, we would never have been able to hang out together because we were in such different cliques or whatever. Now, who cares?
-
No matter what happens with technology or whether you're in traditional animation or stop-motion or CG, the biggest challenge always is story. The flow of making the movie is usually determined by how your story is coming together, and when your story is straining and you can't quite get your hands around it, your entire production is straining.
-
I'm a very eclectic person, and I enjoy multiple tastes; I'm like a bee who jumps from flower to flower. Before I die, I have to make a war movie, a Western, and a movie like Mike Nichols, because I love him.
-
The entertainment business remains a business of blockbusters, and increasingly so.
-
My second wife Bonnie Owens and I worked together after we divorced for a period of maybe 20 years. And I managed to stay friends with another wife. And then there's one that I don't mess with. Everybody's got one of those.
