"I don't see how being married could be any worse than listening to you talk for twenty years, but that still ain't much of a recommendation for it."

-- Larry McMurtry

#Years Quotes #Listening Quotes #Twenties Quotes

“I've been lucky to listen to lots of different types of music.”
“Being attacked by the press is not something I see as a problem, but rather a confirmation that I am on the right track. It is even better when they ignore me completely, like the Norwegian press does; that means they are really afraid.”

Source : Source: heathenharvest.org
“I remember the first time I was booked into a jazz club. I was scared to death. I'm not a jazz artist. So I got to the club and spotted this big poster saying, 'Richie Havens, folk jazz artist.' Then I'd go to a rock club and I'm billed as a 'folk rock performer' and in the blues clubs I'd be a 'folk blues entertainer.'”
“Amherst was pivotal in my broad intellectual development; MIT in my development as a professional economist.”
“Celebrity is a corrosive condition for the soul.”

Source : "Charlton Heston: Great sport with a line in heroic role models". "The Sunday Times" Newspaper, June 17, 1990.
“In the school of boxing that I come from, that's frowned upon, giving up free shots, cos we know what those kinda shots do to a man's career, regardless of whether it shows up now, or shows up when you least need it. It takes a toll.”
“I think that any photographer is an investigator. Photography is a pretext to know the world, to know life. To know yourself.”
“My basic mistake in 'The World's Greatest Lover' was that I made the leading character a neurotic kook and sent him to Hollywood. I should have made him a perfectly normal, sane, ordinary person, and sent him to Hollywood. The audience identifies with the lead character.”

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