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An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so must be willing to accept all the experiences life has to offer. In fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet. – James Dean Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
To grasp the full significance of life is the actor’s duty; to interpret it his problem; and to express it his dedication. – James Dean Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
Frankly, I was horrified by life, at what a man had to do simply in order to eat, sleep, and keep himself clothed. So I stayed in bed and drank. When you drank the world was still out there, but for the moment it didn’t have you by the throat. – Charles Bukowski Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
I didn't have any friends at school, didn't want any. I felt better being alone. I sat on a bench and watched the others play and they looked foolish to me. – Charles Bukowski Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
I wasn't a misanthrope and I wasn't a misogynist but I liked being alone. It felt good to sit alone in a small space and smoke and drink. I had always been good company for myself. – Charles Bukowski Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
Some moments are nice, some are nicer, some are even worth writing about. – Charles Bukowski Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
I'm a big fan of British journalists like 'The Independent's Robert Fisk, but it's hard to find voices like his in the U.S. – Jackson Browne Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
You can take as much as you can from the generation that has preceded you, but then it's up to you to make something new. – Jackson Browne Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
When I really started liking music was when I could play some of it myself, and after a couple of years of playing folk music, I kinda rediscovered those hits that were on the radio all the time when I was a kid. – Jackson Browne Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
The biggest influence? I've had several at different times - but the biggest for me was Bob Dylan, who was a guy that came along when I was twelve or thirteen and just changed all the rules about what it meant to write songs. – Jackson Browne Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
So what I do, more than play any instrument - I mean, I love to play - but more than that, I write songs. Songs that are about living, about what it's like to be going through all the things that people go through in life. – Jackson Browne Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
So I had a couple of years of playing trumpet. I really enjoyed it, but it was not the kind of instrument you could whip out at a party. Let's face it. – Jackson Browne Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
Music itself is a great source of relaxation. Parts of it anyway. Working in the studio, that's not relaxing, but playing an instrument that I don't know how to play is unbelievably relaxing, because I don't have any pressure on me. – Jackson Browne Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
It was a great time to be born, because I got to have my own publishing company right from the beginning, so I made more money than somebody would have doing what I did ten or fifteen years before. – Jackson Browne Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse - and that led to writing my own songs. – Jackson Browne Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
I wrote the song For A Dancer for a friend of mine who died in a fire. He was in the sauna in a house that burned down, so he had no idea anything was going on. It was very sad. – Jackson Browne Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
I told my father I wanted to play the banjo, and so he saved the money and got ready to give me a banjo for my next birthday, and between that time and my birthday, I lost interest in the banjo and was playing guitar. – Jackson Browne Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
I taught myself to play the piano, because I wanted to play it. – Jackson Browne Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
I love to read. I love to stretch. In the morning, I get up, and if I'm not in a hurry, I will lie on the floor on a rug, look through some books and magazines, and maybe listen to music and try to do stretching exercises to tune up. – Jackson Browne Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain. – Jackson Browne Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
And my dad wanted me to play the trumpet because that's what he liked. His idol was Louis Armstrong. My dad thought my teeth came together in a way that was perfect for playing the trumpet. – Jackson Browne Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
Also, right at that particular time in the music business, because of people like the Beatles, people began owning their own publishing. I'll just say this really quickly - they used to divide the money for the music that was written in two, just equal halves. – Jackson Browne Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
When my dad died a lot of songs came, and they're still coming. – Rosanne Cash Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
And I don't think that success is going to destroy me at this point in my life, like I used to think. – Rosanne Cash Famous Quote	added 4 years ago

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