Dixie Lee Ray Quotes
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In Hollywood, you can live alongside very famous but still incredibly boring people. I've never wanted to be immortal. Even if nobody remembers me after my death, it's still okay with me.
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To be 23 and riding the crest of a song sweeping the world country by country is to live an altered and wholly rarefied existence.
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This was just one of many times God has spared me.
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I don't think there's any formula for what makes great art.
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Once I got married, I started working from an office. I found that having somewhere to go that isn't my house is mentally helpful: 'This is the place where I answer email and write blog posts,' and 'over there is the place where I do the dishes.'
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Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given quite a bit of thought to that.
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No god ever gave any man anything, nor ever answered any prayer at any time - nor ever will.
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There was a special challenge in describing the awful childhood of a person who happens to be my own husband. It was very painful at times, for both of us.
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Some people write heavily, some write lightly. I prefer the light approach because I believe there is a great deal of false reverence about. There is too much solemnity and intensity in dealing with sacred matters; too much speaking in holy tones.
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But a city is more than a place in space, it is a drama in time.
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I have to expend an awful lot of energy actively undoing the impact of my name. Understandably, people assume that I have at least some connection to Iran. The truth is that I don't. I have very little knowledge about the culture, the language, the history. I've never been to Iran. I've never even been inside a mosque.
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I'm just someone who marvels at God.
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If there is the right opportunity for us to have a big oil play in Congo or somewhere else, we will definitely go for it.
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The bad reviews get to me, believe me.
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I've worked hard throughout my entire life, but I don't think all the hard work could have produced the same results without all the genetics I was given.
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In poor countries, the rich and powerful crush the poor and powerless.
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Everyone asks me if I'm the princess or if my brothers beat me up. The younger ones I can deck pretty easily. With the older ones, it's harder.
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Across the Atlantic, in the scattered, far-flung, rural settlements of colonial America, hospitality had become a central concern, and hostesses, like peacocks displaying their iridescent plumage, tried to outdo one another with their creative food displays.
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I want to continue to be me and share with people.
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People in the U.K. share my bemusement with the United States that America doesn't share with itself. They have a sense of irony, which America doesn't have, seeing as it's being run by fundamentalists who take things literally.
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Nothing would please the Kremlin more than to have the people of this country choose a second rate president.
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Make-up is an extension of your clothes.
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If you're not having fun - I don't care what you're doing - don't do it. Move on. Find something else, life's too short.
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I have confidence in people's basic common sense.
