Delta Burke Quotes
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My husband passed away a long time ago, and of course a lot of people have courted me. I've been taken to dinner and also to things like Larry Hagman, in particular years ago. And more recently, of course, little Hugh Jackman - and he's too young for me though, frankly.
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I laugh at what I used to think was cool when I was growing up. In all seriousness, I thought having braces was cool.
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When I was a child - in wartime, pre-television - books were my life.
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I have the potential to be very strong and powerful, sometimes angry, sometimes passionate. I also can be shy and withhold that because I am afraid. I don't want to freak anybody out with my passion... So I struggle with that all the time.
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I don't read novels, but my semiotics study influenced everything about the way I read and edit and write.
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Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.
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Most of the largest software companies in the world today are based on Oracle, and they were once startups.
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If you're a designer, there's got to be some films that you've seen that have inspired you creatively. There's no escaping that.
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Our original name was Wild Country, but when we first went to The Bowery, they had the name of all 50 states around the edge of the club, so we went to the sign that said 'Alabama' and stuck our band name underneath it.
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No, but there are people I grew up with from the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains that would give any person on 'Justified' a run for their money in the scary department.
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If children have an interest in nature, they will understand. I want them to become people who appreciate the consequences the next generation will suffer if we destroy our natural surroundings. So without a doubt, they need to learn that nature is vital to us by experiencing it. I want them to like nature and to climb mountains and so on.
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Start early and begin raising the bar throughout the day.
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Show me someone who never gossips, and I will show you someone who is not interested in people.
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Anger and hate against one we love steels our hearts, but contempt or pity leaves us silent and ashamed.
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I really like the old stuff that I cut my musical teeth on, and I loved it when the industry was just like that, without really a genre. Today, country radio's more aimed at a demographic than a genre. It just softens everything.
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I can tell you character traits I admire and work to develop in myself - perseverance, self-discipline, courage to stand up for what is right even when it is against one's friends or one's self.
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Sometimes, the most daunting thing about performing is making eye contact with your audience, so just look above them and at the corners of the room. Soon, you'll totally forget they're there.
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If you ask me anything I don't know, I'm not going to answer.
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I feel like any time John Oliver is added to something, the comedy is instantly there. He's so funny.
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Over the years, I've come to realize that sometimes a ghost isn't always a ghost. Sometimes, telling a ghost story is a way to talk about something else present in the air, taking up space beside you. It can also be a manifestation of intuition, or something you've known in your bones but haven't yet been able to accept.
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If American citizens don't wake up and adopt the Virgil Goode position on immigration there will likely be many more Muslims elected to office and demanding the use of the Koran.
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Highly developed spirits often encounter resistance from mediocre minds.
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I was surprised to find that I missed doing the musical.
