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" Being in love with a lot of people is incompatible with a stable family life. "

Kris Kristofferson

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" I was in Nicaragua with the Sandinistas. I've argued for Leonard Peltier, Mumia Abu-Jamal, the United Farm Workers. I've been a radical for a long time. I guess it's too bad. I'd be more marketable as a right-wing redneck. But I got into this to tell the truth as I saw it. "

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" It's much better being an older father. You don't have to go prove to the world and to yourself that you're who you want to be, for better or worse. "

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" Right after I resigned from the Army in 1965, I flew helicopters for oil platforms in the Gulf of Mexico. I flew personnel from rig to rig, and I'd live on a platform out at sea. "

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" I turned 30 as a janitor. I was thinking at the time that Hank Williams died when he was 29. All my peers were at least 10 years younger than I was. I felt like an old has-been at the time. "

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" If 'Bobby McGee' lasts, if 'Star Is Born' lasts, if 'Help Me Make It through the Night' lasts, if all of 'em last, man... who cares? "

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" The great thing about Nashville back in the day was that the old guys hung out where the young guys were. The established writers like Harlan Howard and Jack Clement gave us encouragement and passed the guitar, you know? Chet Atkins let me sit in on his sessions. Everybody was good to us, and everybody loved the music. "

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" Everything that I write is sort of autobiographical, and I don't know that I'm getting better, but I'm certainly running out of time. "

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" If God made anything better than women, he kept it for himself. "

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" Human rights is something that wasn't hard to be inspired to write about because there have been so many violations of those rights. "

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" The one thing I regret is missing the time with my older children when they were young. "

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" Havin' Dylan cover one of your songs is like being a playwright and having Shakespeare act in your play. "

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" I have a special place in my heart for Nashville because it saved my life back in the day. "

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" I remember I had an actor friend - a close friend from college - Anthony Zerbe. He sent me a telegram before I started my first movie, 'Cisco Pike.' It said, 'Have a good time. Ignore the camera.' That was the extent of my training. "

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" I am grateful every morning I wake up. I've a big family full of kids, who laugh all the time and love each other. "

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" Bobby Bare is one of the greatest people in country music. "

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" Looking back, I'm surprised I had the nerve to do it, but I'm glad I did. Performing the songs and performing in film was just a part of my personality, just like football and boxing at one point in my life. I was able to lose myself in both of them, and that was a good feeling. "

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" To me, the best love songs work on two - maybe three - different levels, where you're talking about the person who you're right opposite, and all the people like that. "

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" There's a time where people were out holding posters in protest outside shows I was doing, and thankfully, we've moved past that. And a lot of country stations wouldn't play me. They were more conservative than I was. "

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" There was time in the first half of the '80s when what I was saying on the stage was controversial. A lot of things I was talking about - Nicaragua and American foreign policy. "

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" Never give up, which is the lesson I learned from boxing. As soon as you learn to never give up, you have to learn the power and wisdom of unconditional surrender, and that one doesn't cancel out the other; they just exist as contradictions. The wisdom of it comes as you get older. "

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" As far as fame, the everlasting fame thing. I used to think that was important for a writer... the desire to make your mark. "

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" I've never really felt comfortable co-writing. I usually go at my own speed, you know. "

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" To me, if you love it enough to devote your life to it, then you're doing the right thing. "

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" I grew up in a time when people believed in duty, honor and country. My grandfathers were both officers. My father was a General in the Air Force. My brother and I were both in the Army. I've always felt a kinship with soldiers; I think it's possible to support the warrior and be against the war. "

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" Look at me! I can go from 'Donny and Marie' to Sam Peckinpah to Radio City Music Hall in one week. "

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" I can interpret my own work honestly. And performing by myself seems to focus the attention in the right places. "

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" I had a list of rules I made up one time. It says: Tell the truth, sing with passion, work with laughter, and love with heart. Those are good to start with, anyway. "

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" The most valuable thing to me seems to be time, and with time, I can be great. I have been... and I will be. "

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" I never thought of acting as a creative process. Christ, I used to go to the movies and see Brando talking like he was trying to sell shoes, and he was great. I thought anybody could do it. Then I tried it, and I got so uptight, I'm limited as to what I can do on film. "

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