Merle Travis Quotes

I have known the fruits of strikes. The bitter and the sweet. Hunger and music.

Merle Travis

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: musician
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 29, 1917 - October 20, 1983

Topics

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I can't see any difference in having your hair dyed, your teeth fixed, your nose done, or your face smoothed out or lifted.

Joanna Lumley

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You can call anything a sport if you want.

Joe Garagiola

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Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim.

John D. Rockefeller

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Our impulse as people is to try to control; as an actor, you have to give up that control.

Andrew J. West

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There is a strong ethical dimension to the best comedy. Not only does it avoid reinforcing prejudices, it actively challenges them.

Steve Coogan

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There are actually no political aspirations. I think you need to have the right attitude and aptitude for it. I don't think I have the right aptitude for it. I think it is unfair to push somebody in that direction just because my father happens to be a politician.

Sonakshi Sinha

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I decided to be a filmmaker when I was 12. I had utter clarity that this would be my life.

Tom Hooper

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If you're famous for being famous, that's usually a four-year career.

Rocky Carroll

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I grew up in church. I don't know anything different.

Michelle Carter

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Filmmaking has always involved pairs: a director coupled with a producer, a director alongside an editor... The notion of couples is not foreign to cinema.

Luc Dardenne

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'They' is... stay away from them, please. There is so many different definitions of 'they.' You might have a personal 'they.' They against you; they want you broken and miserable. They don't like winners; they don't like people who's blessed. So everybody's got a different 'they.'

DJ Khaled

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Certainly we disagree with the Communist Party, as we disagree with other political parties who are trying to maintain the American way of life.

Dorothy Day

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