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"I can only say the first thing that pops into my mind is I remember, years ago, seeing kind of a has-been country singer working - when I first moved to Nashville - in a bar in a Holiday Inn."
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"People who think too much before they act don't act too much."
People

"Instinct taught me 20 years ago to pace a song or a concert performance. That translates into pacing a story, pleasing a reading audience."
Performance

"Humor has bailed me out of more tight situations than I can think of. If you go with your instincts and keep your humor, creativity follows. With luck, success comes, too."
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"If it doesn't work out there will never be any doubt that the pleasure was worth all the pain."
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"I can only say the first thing that pops into my mind is I remember, years ago, seeing kind of a has-been country singer working - when I first moved to Nashville - in a bar in a Holiday Inn."
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"And you find as a writer there are certain spots on the planet where you write better than others, and I believe in that. And New Orleans is one of them."
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"Quitting doesn't enter my mind."
Mind

"And I wound up in New Orleans for all those years and it was a great place, really a catalyst creatively."
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"I'm inspired by people who keep on rolling, no matter their age."
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"Indecision may or may not be my problem."
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"What, I sometimes wonder, would it be like if I lived in a country where winter is a matter of a few chilly days and a few weeks' rain; where the sun is never far away, and the flowers bloom all year long?"
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"Those who own the country ought to govern it."
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"I drove across country in my yellow 1970 VW bug (which I drove until 1986) to Los Angeles, having had enough cold weather in 5 years in Ann Arbor, and found a job within a few days."
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"If presidents can't do it to their wives, they do it to their country."
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"You can't stop what comes into a country, you can be influenced, but you can't stop it, you shouldn't, because it makes all the others interesting, we all get muddled up together, and produce something that belongs to everyone."
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"The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, "How is the president?""
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"It's a free country and I can keep my mouth shut whenever I want."
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"I've got a great place, it's a country house."
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"Tyrone, I think they're taking to festivals. I don't know which festivals it will be at. It's like a buddy picture. It's a couple of guys driving across the country and they get to a small town and they hit a guy. The guy turns out to be a drug smuggler."
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"'Easy Rider' was never a motorcycle movie to me. A lot of it was about politically what was going on in the country."
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