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It only took me six months to get a record deal, but it took me 20 years to have a hit. — Shane McAnally

Fiction and nonfiction are not so easily divided. Fiction may not be real, but it's true; it goes beyond the garland of facts to get to emotional and psychological truths. — Yann Martel

I originally wanted to stay in Chicago as long as I could. I love Chicago. I don't love L.A. I don't want to leave Chicago. — Allison Tolman

[America's] glory is not dominion, but liberty. Her march is the march of the mind. She has a spear and a shield: but the motto upon her shield is Freedom, Independence, Peace. This has been her declaration: this has been, as far as her necessary intercourse with the rest of mankind would permit, her practice. — John Quincy Adams

I'm a creative person who had a lot of dark time in my life. I can still get to it: I can still go to a relationship or a time when things weren't great. But it's getting further and further from me. — Shane McAnally

I wake up every day thinking, 'I just can't do it anymore.' There's nothing left to say, and I'm completely dry. And then I get in the room with somebody and they say the right thing, and I'm on again. — Shane McAnally

One of the greatest tools you have as a songwriter is anonymity. If someone knows too much about the songwriter, they don't get to insert their own characters. I don't want the audience thinking about the gay guy who wrote the song. — Shane McAnally

He that has never suffered extreme adversity knows not the full extent of his own depravation. — Charles Caleb Colton

I have a hard time being happy, and I think a lot of creative people suffer with that when life gets real happy. — Shane McAnally

I'm a commercial-minded songwriter. I'm here to make a living and be on the radio. — Shane McAnally

Nashville is a boys' club of redneck conservative ideas. But they're ready to embrace gay people. I never felt for one second that someone was judging me. Some people are like, 'Oh, I love gay people' in that 'I have lots of black friends' kind of way. It's awkward, but you have to appreciate that they're trying. — Shane McAnally

Why should I obtain by force that which I can obtain by cheating? — Doc Holliday

That internal ache is the starting point of country music. If it's a happy song and I can still feel sad in it? That's my favorite. — Shane McAnally

If the right idea comes up, and it feels true to talk about somebody being in a truck, and that's the only way to tell the story, then I will reluctantly tell the story that way. — Shane McAnally

The truth is, I probably would be dead if I had become a star, because at that point I was so closeted and so afraid of people of finding out I was gay. There was no telling what would have happened. — Shane McAnally

We'll set up a demo session and try to knock out eight or ten songs and make them sound as close as we can to a record with the money and time we have. — Shane McAnally

You say often you wish a library; here I gif you one; for between these two lids (he meant covers) is many books in one. Read him well, and he will help you much; for the study of character in this book will help you to read it in the world, and paint it with your pen. — Louisa May Alcott

The family I'm from, well, no one had their name on big buildings. My family were builders of a different kind. Builders in the way most American families are. They used whatever tools they had - whatever God gave them - and whatever life in America provided - and built better lives and better futures for their kids. — Hillary Clinton

He didn't know when he was going to get the chance to play WoW again. And it was damn important to do his bit to save all life on Azeroth while he could. — Thea Harrison

West Hollywood blew my mind: gay men walking down the street, kissing and holding hands. I'd never imagined there was a place like that. — Shane McAnally

When something works on a huge level, everybody does it. — Shane McAnally

When I stopped hiding who I am, I started writing hits. — Shane McAnally