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You call me up on a payphone…and I said, who the fuck uses a payphone. -The Arkells in the song, “Leather Jacket”


Added by Chris on Season 12, Episode 1

Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting. - from All The Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy.


Added by Tom on Season 12, Episode 1

Man, i sure was something / The way I laid em low / And I still got the will / But the legs ain't there no more - big harp, from the song, "Goodbye crazy city"


Added by Chris on Season 12, Episode 2

You can tell a lot about a person by what's on their playlist - Dan (mark Ruffalo) from the movie, "Begin again"


Added by Tom on Season 12, Episode 2

Cuz there ain’t no fours - Antoine Walker, on why he shot so many 3 pointers


Added by Chris on Season 12, Episode 3

You can’t forget memories - Todd Snider, happy to be here (purple building version)


Added by Tom on Season 12, Episode 3

The rose goes in the front, big guy - crash davis to "nuke" Laloosh, in Bull Durham


Added by Chris on Season 12, Episode 4

Get busy living, or get busy dying - Red, from Shawshank redemption


Added by Tom on Season 12, Episode 4

You can cage the singer but not the song - by harry belafonte


Added by Chris on Season 12, Episode 5

Asking for help isn’t giving up, it’s refusing to give up - by the Horse, from The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse, by charlie mackesy


Added by Tom on Season 12, Episode 5

Just remember how you'd ask me how much I love you / I'd tell you - as deep as the sea / Well, I've seen that ocean now / And it ain't deep enough / To hold how much you mean to me - kevin welch, "A letter to dustin"


Added by Chris on Season 12, Episode 6

You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children - Madeleine L’Engle, author of A Wrinkle In Time


Added by Tom on Season 12, Episode 6

I wouldn't say that I'm particularly bothered or obsessed with detail - Wes Anderson


Added by Chris on Season 12, Episode 7

"These are O.R. scrubs.” “Oh Are they?" - from rushmore


Added by Tom on Season 12, Episode 7

Tell yer momma your daddy done quit his drinkin’ / Tell yer momma, your daddy done found the lord / Tell yer momma your daddy done quit cussin’, his fightin’, his carryin’ on / But don’t you tell yer momma, goddamn yer daddy’s bored - Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers, from “Tell Yer Momma"


Added by Chris on Season 12, Episode 8

So don't let 'em take who you are boy, and don't try to be who you ain't/ And don't let me catch you in Kendale with a bucket of wealthy man's paint - drive-By truckers, from "OUtfit"


Added by Tom on Season 12, Episode 8

We're redefining the word impossible / We're standing up for what we feel is right / I am fucking unstoppable / I am a fucking juggernaut - Red City Radio, “Show Me on the Doll Where the Music Touched You”


Added by Chris on Season 12, Episode 9

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding - Khalil Gibran, The Prophet.


Added by Tom on Season 12, Episode 9

Sad and lonely songs that you would sing/ Lipstick dried to the coffee cup/ And stuck to my heart/ it won't rub off - bobby bare, jr., "The ending"


Added by Chris on Season 12, Episode 10

. . .making a record is like doing your hair and makeup in a dark room with no mirror. Until you put it out in the world and have other people listen to it you don’t know what you’ve actually done - bobby bare, jr., interview with american songwriter


Added by Tom on Season 12, Episode 10

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