Padgett Powell Quotes

I know about the sweet home. I went to school with 'em boys, what became Lynyrd Skynyrd; I knew Allen Collins, the skinny girl-beautiful guitarist. I put Allen Collins in every travel piece I do. Travel writing is harrowing, going to Bermuda with a banjo on my knee.

Padgett Powell

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Part of the decision I made was to move very fluidly from one medium to the other, and so it has stayed as part of who I am. I don't know if I have a preference.

Joe Morton

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I started in 1957 when I sold my first story to a magazine.

Jean Giraud

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A good song is a good song whatever your age.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

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Although the president has the power to remove an FBI director, the decision should not be taken lightly.

Rod Rosenstein

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Unfortunately, in some parts of the country, some kids are taught at an early age that being different is somehow bad or wrong or worthy of ridicule.

Matt Bomer

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The American people are sick and tired of this 'lesser evil' garbage they get fed every election year. Both the Democrats and the Republicans do the same evils once they're in office.

Roseanne Barr

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The beauty about being a producer is you sit there, and you explore ideas which become a passion, which slowly becomes a reality.

Michelle Yeoh

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I've never enriched myself via privatization schemes in Eastern Europe.

Joshua Cohen

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Often, when you're in some of these writing rooms for... and the most restrictive is network television, right? They say, 'Wow, that's a great joke, but we can't do that. Okay, let's try the second joke. Oh, you can't do that one. But the third joke you can do,' and hopefully it will be great, but it will remind people of what the joke really was.

Jay Chandrasekhar

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You have to be okay with wins and losses. You can't just be looking for the wins and, when the losses happen, you can't buy more and more because you're sure it's going to bounce. We call that revenge trading.

Josh Brolin

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Football is very changeable, particularly at international level when you're not working together every day.

Diego Godin

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Many models I knew had come from broken families. That makes a significant difference in the way you handle yourself and the choices you make.

Christy Turlington

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