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" It's always embarrassing when somebody does something praiseworthy of you. "

Kris Kristofferson

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" To do the things that I did, I'm amazed that I had the audacity - like resigning from the Army and becoming a janitor and a songwriter. "

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" I've come to appreciate how special a song is compared to other art forms, because you can carry it around in your head and your heart, and it remains part of you. It just comes as natural as a bird to me, always did. It's the way singer-songwriters make sense of our lives. "

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" I feel like sometimes, when I'm singing a song like 'Moment of Forever,' that it goes both to your significant other and to the audience, and was it wonderful for you, you know? I think the best love songs I've written work on that level, like 'Help Me Make It Through the Night.' "

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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" My albums really are like scrapbooks to me. "

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" 'Heaven's Gate' was based on a true story about the cattle people: the people who had the money turned on the settlers who were in the area. And it was mainly a defense of their behavior. And the cattlemen's association had just about declared war on these people who were poaching cattle, and because they were mainly immigrants. "

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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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" 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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" 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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" There are a lot of Iraqi people we can never pay back for what we've done. "

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" I hope that I'll keep being creative until they throw dirt on me. "

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" The older I get, the less conservative I become. "

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" Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose. "

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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've been trying to think of things to tell my kids, something that I could pass down, and it's like, gee whiz, I maybe never learned anything that didn't contradict itself. "

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" There are points in your life, especially if you have creative ambitions, where selfishness is necessary. "

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

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" 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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" Nothing ain't worth nothing but it's free. "

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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've never forgotten a single record I cut or a song I wrote. "

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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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" What really makes me happy now is my home. I know that I have that to lose. But I don't see losing it. And I don't care if I never do another movie. And I don't care if I never get back on the road. I like to think that I'm gonna do that. But if I don't, I can live with that. "

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" I wish my memory weren't so bad. They tell me it's from all the football and boxing and the concussions that I got. "

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