Wynonna Judd Quotes

It took me 36 years to be able to be by myself and like it.

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• The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Important
  • Woman
  • Clothes

• Finally, my manager negotiated a deal where I got to produce my own records.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • Where
  • Manager
  • My Own

• When I get to work with someone like Prabhu Dheva at the beginning on my career, why would I say no?

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Work
  • Why
  • Career

• You don't master your fear. You're not able to say, 'I'm not going to be scared.' But what you can do is say, 'OK, I'm very very scared, but I have to do this and this and this.'

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • You
  • Fear
  • Scared

• I have a good relationship with Lifetime.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Good
  • Relationship
  • Lifetime

• Well, it is curious what lasts and what doesn't. Publishing empires and whatnot would pay anything to figure it out. But they can't figure it out.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Pay
  • Curious
  • Empires

• No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Long
  • Business
  • Dying

• However old-fashioned and right-wing this may sound, the American genius for language lies in understatement, in saying things simply, pointedly and quickly, and in making new and clean and swift what otherwise might be ponderous, round and slow.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • May
  • American
  • Language

• I got to be good friends with Scott Hamilton.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Good Friends

• I remember once, we got an interview, and he said, 'Dad, these people are writing about me like I'm an adult. Don't they know I'm a kid?' I have never tried to encourage him to get a music image like other musicians have.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • People
  • Music
  • Writing

• Good short-story collections, like good record albums, are almost always hit-and-miss affairs - successful if they include three or four great tracks, wildly successful if they have five. And that's as it should be.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Good
  • Great
  • Successful

• The key to wealth is not what we earn. It is in what is spent on us.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Wealth
  • Key
  • U.S.

• When you are totally depressed, you should try giggling. Just make yourself laugh. Force yourself to laugh.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Yourself
  • Try
  • Laugh

• I've sat down and written with a more or less supportable or insupportable idea or thing to say, and it ends. When it's not 200 pages, people want to call it a story. I guess they're entitled to do that. In my view, if it were a supportable idea, it would have gone 200 pages, and it didn't.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • People
  • Want
  • View

• I've been through periods where I haven't worked and would have paid someone to give me a job - I think that's really helped me feel very grateful to have a job, even when I have a call time of 3:30 A.M. My mom laughs when I text at 4 A.M saying, 'I love my job.'

  

  Rachel Skarsten
  • Time
  • Job
  • Feel

• I've always written about adultery because it raises the question of transgression and trouble.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Question
  • Always
  • Trouble

• I am 100 percent supportive of the stand-alone bill to repeal 'don't ask, don't tell' that Sens. Lieberman and Collins have now proposed, and indeed I will co-sponsor that legislation. It is time for this discriminatory policy to end, and I am willing to pursue any effective legislative path that could lead to that result.

  

  Carl Levin
  • Time
  • Alone
  • Path

• I was born with this heart condition, but it's never affected me – I've been able to play every sport I wanted to, and the doctors were amazed.

  

  Dan Feuerriegel
  • Heart
  • Born
  • Condition

• There are still a lot of Mike Tyson fans out there, and a lot of disbelievers in the first fight, and they want to see us fight again. I am the emperor. If he wants to fight, I am here. If he does not, I understand.

  

  Lennox Lewis
  • Fight
  • Mike Tyson
  • Disbelievers

• I'm learning on the guitar all the time.

  

  James Vincent McMorrow
  • Time
  • Learning

• I think that a really good agent should be able to get the right publisher, which the agent has already figured out, get as much money as she can from that publisher, and make a deal, rather than have the amount of money determine the sale. That's what the best agents do.

  

  Jonathan Galassi
  • Good
  • Money
  • She

• Growth, in some curious way, I suspect, depends on being always in motion just a little bit, one way or another.

  

  Norman Mailer
  • Growth
  • Motion
  • Depend

• It took me 36 years to be able to be by myself and like it.

  

  Wynonna Judd