Rodney Atkins Quotes
Some people grab my hair and pull it out. People write on my jeans when I'm on stage. They write on my boots - their phone number, name or whatever.
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My first car was an '84 Ford Taurus. It caught on fire from me trying to change the fuel pump, so that wasn't good at all. Dried leaves on the ground while I was trying to change the fuel pump. Don't do that. Do it on concrete.
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A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.
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People want to see a movie that casts a mature woman across from a mature man.
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From age 16, I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine.
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I don't like attacking.
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I was so keen to become a comedian that actually doing the comedy itself almost came second.
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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
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We don't want to be treated any differently, and we want to continue with our lives and our careers.
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In the South, we drink the Bible with our mother's milk.
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I had more friends on my hockey team than I did on my soccer team. I might have been better at soccer, to be honest. But I think it was more the friendship, and my family was more of a hockey family than a soccer family, so when I had to make a decision, I tried hockey, and it turned out to be a good decision.
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I think happiness is a combination of pleasure, engagement and meaningfulness.
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I love fire. As a child I loved setting light to things. I'd always be in the forest putting matches to pieces of wood. I've always regarded fire as my friend.
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I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.
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No matter how much technology changes scouting, no matter how much free agency and big TV contracts change the business of baseball, I hope and pray that the heart of the game will never change.
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A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.
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Custom reconciles us to everything.
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I wasn't into sports, but I was really into Shakespeare.
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In terms of the mechanics of story, myth is an intriguing one because we didn't make myth up; myth is an imprinture of the human condition.
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One of the great upsides to a national book tour is the chance to break out of television's cocoon and interact directly with the American people.
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Strangely enough, 'I've Seen All Good People' is, I think, the second most played Yes song on American radio after 'Owner Of A Lonely Heart.' And then I think 'Roundabout' is third.
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Cynics will say there are no good people out there. And if you read the papers and watch TV news you could be convinced of that. But there are good people.
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He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust.
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Some people grab my hair and pull it out. People write on my jeans when I'm on stage. They write on my boots - their phone number, name or whatever.
