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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. "

Kris Kristofferson

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" I was working the Gulf of Mexico on oil rigs, flying helicopters. I'd lost my family to my years of failing as a songwriter. All I had were bills, child support, and grief. And I was about to get fired for not letting 24 hours go between the throttle and the bottle. It looked like I'd trashed my act. But there was something liberating about it. "

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" Just the words and melody - that's what moves your emotions. "

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" If you can't get out of something, get into it. "

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" When I was thirty, and a long time after that, I felt like I had to leave home to do what I had to do. Now, it's just the opposite. "

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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" I feel so lucky to have lived the life that I did and to be surrounded by the people I love. I've got eight kids, and they're always laughing all the time. It's like music to my ears. I think that my frame of mind these days is probably happier than I've ever been, which is kind of odd, coming close to the finish line. "

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

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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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" 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 think that a society lives or dies according to its respect for - for its art. "

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

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" I feel like I'm kind of lazy, but I keep the yard looking good. "

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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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" I was never big or fast, but I got to play football and box. "

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" Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end. "

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" My albums really are like scrapbooks to me. "

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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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" I thought he was the greatest thing. Bob Dylan. "

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" I don't think I'm that good a singer. I can't think of a song that I've written that I don't like the way somebody else sings it better. "

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" I ended up being friends with all my heroes. Lefty Frizzell, George Jones, Johnny Cash - it was incredible. "

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

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" The first movie I was ever on was a Dennis Hopper film down in Peru. "

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" Freedom is just another word: It seems to get truer the older I get. "

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

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

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