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" I hope that I'll keep being creative until they throw dirt on me. "
Kris Kristofferson
Dirt
Hope
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" Your weight has to be behind the punch to make it matter. "
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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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Time
" Johnny Cash has always been larger than life. "
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" 'Sunday Morning Coming Down' is probably the most directly autobiographical thing I'd written. In those days, I was living in a slum tenement that was torn down afterwards, but it was $25 a month in a condemned building, and 'Sunday Morning Coming Down' was more or less looking around me and writing about what I was doing. "
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Writing
Looking
" 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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" Johnny Cash's legacy, I think if it was one word, it would be 'integrity.' He was the original wild man and grew from that guy that was doing all the crazy things that you read that rock n' rollers do to being someone who was like the father of our country, you know. He was a guest at the White House. He was Billy Graham's friend. "
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" Every time I turn on the radio, I must be on the wrong song or something. But, to be honest, since I went on the road back in 1970, I didn't listen to radio music because I didn't want to subconsciously steal somebody's stuff. "
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Back
Listen
Song
" If you can't get out of something, get into it. "
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Something
Out
Get
" I ended up being friends with all my heroes. Lefty Frizzell, George Jones, Johnny Cash - it was incredible. "
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Friends
Heroes
" I really have no anxiety about controlling my own life. "
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Anxiety
Controlling
" When I was stationed in Germany, Johnny Cash was already a legend over there because he'd done some shows, then gone off to some bar straight afterwards and played just for the troops. So he was a real hero. "
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Gone
Cash
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" The closest I've come to knowing myself is in losing myself. That's why I loved football before I loved music. I could lose myself in it. "
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Losing
Myself
Music
" 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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Human Rights
Hard
Rights
" 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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Long
Time
Truth
" 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? "
Kris Kristofferson
Night
Star
Me
" Songs are just like your kids. You love them all, and they're all different. I can't really pick out favourites. "
Kris Kristofferson
Like
Love
You
" Those 'Idol' shows are kind of scary to me. They wanted me to be on one of those panels one time, and I said it's the last thing in the world I'd ever want to do. I would hate to have to discourage somebody. "
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World
Kind
Me
" There was a film that really affected me, 'La Strada' by Fellini, where Anthony Quinn and Giulietta Masina travel around on his little motorcycle thing. "
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Little
Film
Motorcycle
" Just the words and melody - that's what moves your emotions. "
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Your
Melody
Just
" When I wrote 'Help Me Make It Through the Night,' I was on an oil platform out in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico and was just thinking of myself. "
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Oil
Thinking
Myself
" You don't paddle against the current, you paddle with it. And if you get good at it, you throw away the oars. "
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You
Paddle
Throw
" I boxed in Golden Gloves at Oxford and still know how to throw a straight left jab. "
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Left
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How
" If it hadn't been for Johnny Cash, I'd probably have been a Nashville songwriter because that's what I had done for almost five years. "
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Years
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" I got scars on my face that tell some kind of story. I'm looking in the mirror, and I got one scar that's really two scars - half from a baseball bat and half from playing football in college. I'll tell you, though, after a while, your face gets so wrinkled up you can hardly see them. "
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Football
College
Baseball
" Every album I've made is about what I'm experiencing at the time. "
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About
Every
" I have no regrets. I feel very grateful for the life that I had - you know, family I live with; and I've been doing work that I love, ever since I came to Nashville. "
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Family
Grateful
Life
" 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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Old
Peers
Thinking
" It's always embarrassing when somebody does something praiseworthy of you. "
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Somebody
Always
" Being in love with a lot of people is incompatible with a stable family life. "
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Lot
Life
" I had fought for my independence and fought for my freedom to do as I chose. "
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Had
Freedom
Independence