Dickey Betts Quotes

I'm influenced by Django Reinhardt, Stephane Grappelly, Roland Kirk, John Coltrane, B.B. King, and then by bluegrass. But when I was 16, bluegrass wasn't cool. We was rock n' rollers then: Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis.

Dickey Betts

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Everybody who has ever been snubbed, you know that is very humiliating.

Jennifer Aniston

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Democracy relies on free speech. Yes, say anything you want, but it relies even more on the speech being truthful. It is the truth, after all, that sets us free.

John F. Kerry

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I actually admire some of the books by a lot of the writers who write magic realism very much, but it's not for me. It's not what I can do, but even if I could, I don't really want to try.

Melvyn Bragg

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It's difficult to write anything at the moment, as every week there's a seismic shift in world events.

Stewart Lee

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We need to stop saying we can't rock this boat when it needs to be rocked.

Sibel Edmonds

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Here's a vice: I say yes to too many things. I wish I had the guilty pleasure of saying no. My goal is to try to do less, but more fully.

Sigourney Weaver

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My idea in terms of managing a narrative, or in thinking in my creative life, is that you could easily argue that the past, the present and the future all occur simultaneously, and if you can postulate that, then you're not strictly bound to a linear narrative.

Tommy Lee Jones

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We live in a world where if you're white, an upper-class male of extreme privilege, and able-bodied, and you're nothing that takes you away from that norm, then you're going to have - then the world will not assign you problems because of what you are. That is actually the world we live in.

Michaela Coel

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What you feel is important may not be what the director feels is important.

Christina Ricci

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I'm not misunderstood. I am brash. I make my living being brash.

Penn Jillette

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If everyone in the music business were brutally honest about what their intentions were then you could sort things out, but it's all smoke and mirrors.

Noel Gallagher

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I think that emotion and good stories can cross the times.

Marion Cotillard

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