"My parents split up when I was about 2. I realize more and more how much I'm like my father. My gentleness comes from my mother."

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Source : Interview with Jayson Greene, pitchfork.com. June 22, 2012.

Justin Townes Earle

#Mother Quotes #Father Quotes #Parent Quotes

“I don't see any harm in brining an instrument into the church itself.”

Source : Source: brightestyoungthings.com
“I don't have a bank account because I don't know my mother's maiden name.”

Source : "On Location: Women of the Night". TV Special, July 11, 1987.
“Life isnâ€™t fair." I said. "Itâ€™s taken me a while to get that. Itâ€™s always going to disappoint you in some way or another. Youâ€™ll make plans, and itâ€™ll push you in another direction. You will love people, and theyâ€™ll be taken away no matter how hard you fight to keep them. Youâ€™ll try for something and wonâ€™t get it. You donâ€™t have to find meaning in it; you donâ€™t have to try to change things. You just have to accept the things that are out of your hands and try to take care of yourself. Thatâ€™s your job.”
“American feminism's nose dive began when Kate Millet, that imploding beanbag of poisonous self-pity, declared Freud a sexist. Trying to build a sex theory without studying Freud, women have made nothing but mud pies.”
“Try putting your iPhones down every once in a while and look at people's faces.”
“Your ability to set goals is the master skill of success. Goals unlock your positive mind and release ideas and energy for goal attainment. Without goals, you simply drift and flow on the currents of life. With goals, you fly like an arrow, straight and true to your target.”
“If this advertisement be not sufficient, I can only protrude my wormlike tendrils of apology, craving forbearance on the grounds that a writer must write about what he knows, and since I know nothing about any subject it scarcely matters where I dabble.”

Source : William T. Vollmann (1994). “Butterfly Stories: A Novel”, p.3, Grove Press
“Growing up in Miami, I had all these great, strong influences. Being Cuban and the Latin influence, but also the strong hip-hop influence. I know that people everywhere listen to hip-hop, but especially being from the South, you really get that influence. You go out, you party, and it's just always there.”

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