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Rodney Crowell Quotes

Memory is revisionist, you know. 'The Houston Kid' was based on true things that happened. But I know - from writing a memoir that I've been working on for awhile - that reconstructing memory is revisionism.

Rodney Crowell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: algerian
Birth: August 7, 1950

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Memory Writing You Know True Kid

Let my life as Poet begin. I want the life of the Poet. I have labored for over twelve years, one thousand pages of prose. Now, I want the easiness of poetry. The brevity of the poem.

Maxine Hong Kingston

Life Poetry My Life Now Want Begin

You don't eat before your troops eat, and you don't ask your troops to do anything you won't do, too.

Robert Mueller

You Ask Eat Anything Your Before

For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Adventure Become Necessary Occurrence

I kind of quit surfing when I got out of high school, but then a few years ago I started to take it up again. I'm not an expert by any means, but it's so wonderful to get out in the ocean and get a different perspective on things.

Jeff Bridges

Perspective Ocean School High School

As far as expense, I think if 'Twilight' does well enough, then we should be able to do the big expensive stuff for the sequels. I mean, we have to have werewolves, there's no way around it. They have to be there.

Stephenie Meyer

Think Enough Way Mean Expensive Big

The first thing you should know about me is when I was three years old my mother left me and my father. And that was traumatic obviously for my father - he suffered a nervous breakdown at that time in his life.

Robert Carlyle

Life Father Mother Time Me You

We think; therefore, we often talk rubbish.

Robert Webb

Think Talk Rubbish Often Therefore

I was born January 6, 1937, eight years after Wall Street crashed and two years before John Steinbeck published The Grapes of Wrath, his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the plight of a family during the Great Depression.

Lou Holtz

Family January Great Depression Wall

But if I thought on it, I would like to be remembered as a brother who loved his people and did everything that I knew to fight for them, the liberation of our people.

Louis Farrakhan

Fight Brother People Thought Loved

You have to train a dog to think.

Donald McCaig

Dog Think You Train

I'd like to get the word out there, the word has to be spread.

Chita Rivera

Out Spread Get Like Word

I did a theatrical musical, Annie Warbucks, when I was 11. We did a tour and we stopped by Los Angeles.

Christina Milian

Los Angeles Tour Did Annie Stopped