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I guess what I like is mostly country & western or else stuff that has a real blues feel to it.
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Guys like Clyde McPhatter used to sing their tail ends off!
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You don't have to do anything in the movies. You just sit there. Well, that's not entirely true. You do less.
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I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.
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I don't belong much anywhere.
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I know, as an actor, you have to negotiate, but I can't handle the whole idea that art and commerce are synonymous. It drives me nuts.
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A lot of American playwrights seem to have a career as a playwright. I don't consider it a career at all.
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When you listen intensely to anything, you see how it can be improved.
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I remember, as a kid, going into other people's houses. Everything was different. The smells in the kitchen were different; the clothing was different. That bothered me. There's something very mysterious about other families and the way they function.
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I wrote 'Buried Child' in a trailer at an old ranch house we had in California.
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People are starved for the truth, and when something comes along that even looks like the truth, people will latch onto it because everything's so false.
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People are starved for a way of life - they're hunting for a way to be or to act toward the world.
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To sit on a ranch horse that's been broken in, it's like getting in a Porsche.
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On every film, there are producers all over the place, and everyone's got to have an opinion. I think the screenplay is a beautiful form with great potential, but the environment around it is awful for a writer.
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With acting, you can find a way to make it interesting for yourself, if nobody else - even on big-budget films. But you're very much on your own.
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The wonderful thing about writing for theatre is you can go anywhere you want with the language. There are no limits. With film, they frown on language - it's always 'Too many words.'
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I see a lot of scripts, and very few of them leap off the page at you.
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When I first started, I didn't really know how to structure a play.
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I still find it hard to believe that the whole era of jazz is over.
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What I like most about Bolano is his courage.
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I've always felt a great affinity with music. I've felt myself to be more of a musician than anything else, though I'm not proficient in any one instrument. But I think I have a musical sense of things... and writing seems to me to be a musical experience - rhythmically and in many other ways.
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I used to work a lot on ranches where I grew up, and I had to rise at 5:30 in the morning.
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I love Levon Helm - he's one of my favorite guys.
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Dialogue is like jazz. Dialogue is creative.
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I have a cellphone, but I have no Google, I have no gaggle.
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Men lie all the time.
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I never thought about having a daughter, and then I had a daughter, and it was a remarkable thing. It was very different from having a son and your response to it. With a son, it's much more complex. And it's probably because of my stuff in the past. With a daughter, I was surprised at how simple it is.
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It's really great to see an actor find himself, in his sojourn.
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I try not to be in situations where I'm being grabbed at. For the most part, you can avoid them.
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I keep my horses out in the open, but when I was working the ranches, I had to clean the stalls. It was a horrible job.
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I don't attend costume parties.
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I stay away from heavy-handed stuff, the good guy and the bad guy. It just doesn't interest me; all it does is create more fences between people, I think.
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It's very easy to lose language - it can be shut off in a second.
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I had two experiences with very close friends of mine who experienced aphasia, the loss of language. It shocked me.
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There is this aura that the three-act play is the important one: it's the one that you do to win the Pulitzer. Some part of you falls for that, and then after a while, you don't fall for that.
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What I'm after is something different than supplying people with the idea that I'm writing an important play.
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Why would you want to be be counseled in your grief? It's too private.
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To me, a strong sense of self isn't believing in a lot.
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I think most writers, in a sense, have this desire to disappear, to be absolutely anonymous, to be removed in some way: that comes out of the need to be a writer.
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I don't believe in a lot of schmoozing and buttering up. Not that you don't become friends in work. But I think it's a misconception that you have to do a lot of hanging before you work.
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I've always found it embarrassing to receive awards.
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Careers don't interest me. The only thing that interests me is continuing to be a poet on one level or another, whether acting or writing or directing.
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Directing feels great; I'm really happy to be doing this.
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Hats look exactly the same. There's no difference between The Writing Hat and The Acting Hat.
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I'm extremely grateful that I found writing, but it doesn't make it any more peaceful.
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I basically live out of my truck - I mean from place to place. I feel more at home in my truck than just about anywhere, which is a sad thing to say, but it's true.
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When I first started in film, I was terrified of the camera.
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I've always thought Everton was a great club.
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When will the first manager manage at a professional level having learned his trade on 'FIFA 16,' '17,' or '18?' I've watched my grandson on it, I've watched him buy players and sell them to get to the top of the league and it's teaching him how to manage. The knowledge base that they build up would be very interesting down the line.
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