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Johnny Gimble Quotes

I asked the man on the phone from the National Endowment for the Arts what this fellowship entailed, and he said, 'Well, first there's $10,000.' I asked him, 'Can I pay it in installments?'

Johnny Gimble

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: May 30, 1926 - May 9, 2015

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Man Phone Said First Him Pay

I think you could go back to any filmmaker or musician or artist, and look at what their input was in their formative years, and you could trace all the lines.

Andrew Stanton

Think You Artist Look Back Go

Any adaptation - and I've done three in my career. I did 'Sweeney Todd' and 'Hugo' and 'Coriolanus.' It's important to find what makes it a movie as opposed to just a film presentation of a stage play.

John Logan

Career Find Play Done Three Stage

War is murder. And the military preparations now being made for a potential major confrontation are aimed at collective murder. In a nuclear age the victims would be numbered by the millions. This naked truth must be faced.

Alva Myrdal

Age Truth War Potential Now Naked

I'm passionate about women's issues, and there are no outlets for that on TV, so I wanted to create one.

Amanda de Cadenet

Women Create Passionate Issues TV

I think there must be a place inside of us where dreams go and wait their turn.

Sue Monk Kidd

Dreams Wait Think Place Go Turn

If you look at my career, I've never gone to a team that had fulfilled their potential.

Ruud Gullit

Team Potential You Look Career Gone

General statements omit what we really want to know. Example: some horses run faster than others.

Mason Cooley

Know Want Run Others Example Horses

It's the safety valve of middle life, and the solace of age.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

Life Age Safety Middle Solace Valve

Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce.

Molly Ivins

Freedom Ridicule Rejoice Outrageous

The British are actually a lot more appreciative of the comic. In Canada, if you're perceived as a comic writer, there's a real snobbery, and you can't be serious. You're not a big hitter.

Miriam Toews

You Canada Serious More Real Big

I thought I was gonna get a doctorate in composition or be a composer and be at a university for the rest of my life, mostly because my parents are academics, and that was the logical thing to do.

Julia Holter

Life Parents Rest Thought My Life

We have not really advertised Chicago internationally.

Desiree Rogers

Chicago Really Internationally