Tom T. Hall Quotes
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After I retired and came off the road, I gathered up all my musical instruments and suddenly, I wanted them all to be perfect.
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Faulkner was almost oriental. I never got into Faulkner.
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I had the notion that I wanted to write the great dirty American novel, so I went to Roanoke College on the GI Bill.
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I have had hundreds of people work for me over the years, and I don't think I ever fired anybody.
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I have my own religion. I'm sort of one-quarter Baptist, one-quarter Catholic, one-quarter Jewish.
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I love winners when they cry, losers when they try.
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I never fixed a story. I didn't make judgments, I let the listener make judgments. When I got to the end of the story, if it had a moral, I let the listener find it.
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I never hid out. I was never big enough a star.
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I took up a sort of a hobby of just hanging around the local library. I'd pick out an author and I would read all their books.
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I was quite a reader before I became a writer.
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I was well traveled, and I created this illusion of literacy through reading and writing. I wrote a book of short stories.
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I'm a very comfortable and happy-go-lucky old man. I never wanted to be great, because I'd just get worried.
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I've been polite and I've always shown up. Somebody asked me if I had any advice for young people entering the business. I said: "Yeah, show up."
[Success]
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If Barbara Walters was interviewing me, I'd figure her career was as dead as mine!
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It used to be that you'd have a song recorded by a major country artist and if it was a hit, you could buy a car. Now you can buy a dealership.
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My best album is called In Search Of A Song. That was my best shot right there. My finest hour, as they say. I could listen to the whole thing all the way through. There's nothing really crammed into it.
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My theory is if you have a religion, it's a good one. Because some people don't have any at all.
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People think because you're private, you have something you don't want them to know.
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Religion is a strange, wonderful thing. More crimes have been committed in the name of righteousness than any other notion.
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