Bobbie Ann Mason Quotes

The farm is one field to the east of the railroad track that used to connect New Orleans with Chicago. The track runs beside Highway 45, an old U.S. route that unites Chicago with Mobile, Alabama.

Bobbie Ann Mason

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• To grow up knowing you're loved is astounding. It's a huge gift to a child.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Up
  • Child
  • Gift

• We show our faces to support the billions of young people who suffer a lack of education. We show our faces to honour the potential of every young individual on this planet.

  

  Tamzin Merchant
  • People
  • Education
  • Support

• All the time I was writing hit songs with my partner David Porter, I always had the yen to perform. Sure did. And when the opportunity came, I took it. The first album, 'Presenting Isaac Hayes,' didn't do so hot, but it was like a prelude for what was to come.

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Opportunity

• Books on horse racing subjects have never done well, and I am told that publishers had come to think of them as the literary version of box office poison.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • Horse
  • Books
  • Racing

• But being quiet and meditating on sound is something completely different and will be discovered very soon by a lot of people who feel that the visual world doesn't reach their soul anymore.

  

  Karlheinz Stockhausen
  • People
  • World
  • Different

• Winning, you can overlook so many things.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • You
  • Things
  • Winning

• Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Woman
  • Begins
  • Man's

• Patients who trust their doctors and have a psychological expectation of getting better could trigger a reaction in their body.

  

  Irving Kirsch
  • Trust
  • Body
  • Better

• Guys in slavery sang praises to the Lord to deliver them from bondage.

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • Slavery
  • Lord
  • Bondage

• My life is better with every year of living it.

  

  Rachel Maddow
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Birthday

• Warwick Davies is a cracking actor. The opening scene in the last 'Harry Potter' film, where he plays a captured Griphook, is mesmerising. His pacing is sublime, and the menace and regret he builds into the scene is fantastic.

  

  Ian Watson
  • Actor
  • Regret
  • Opening

• The Disney Channel puts out movies, like, every couple of months.

  

  Sabrina Bryan
  • Like
  • Couple
  • Movies

• I like to build a character, trying to stretch my imagination as far to the walls of my brain as I can to come up with something that feels truthful and feels real - as close to the skin as I can get it.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • Up
  • Real
  • Trying

• I've been through a lot. I've thought a lot about life, and I've spent a lot of time studying history and science.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Life
  • Time
  • History

• I used to teach animation history classes at the University of Texas, and I wrote my master's thesis on cartoons. I just love cartoons.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Love
  • History
  • Texas

• If you start trying to figure out yourself from the image everyone has of you, you run into a dead end.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Trying
  • End
  • Yourself

• Believe me, I understand the need for easy and speedy. After a 12-hour day of shooting 'Chopped,' say, I'm talking stir-fry, spaghetti, heck, peanut-butter sandwiches. But that's not about the joy of food. That's survival.

  

  Ted Allen
  • Believe
  • Food
  • Day

• I feel that I can't do certain things that have sent to me, scripts, because I think that really - I've been June Cleaver for so many years, because we went back, you know, and we did - 20-year hiatus we had - and we went back and made 105 new ones. And so I really feel very strongly that there are certain things I won't do.

  

  Barbara Billingsley
  • Know
  • Me
  • New

• I think that when I started Man Repeller, the Internet was still hungry for authentic content from girls that weren't actresses or supermodels and were just relatable girls who had opinions and outfit ideas, and they weren't always good, but at least they were original.

  

  Leandra Medine
  • Good

• 'Saving Grace' was a full stretch-out - literally, physically, spiritually, psychologically. And I needed to take a year-and-a-half off when it was over.

  

  Holly Hunter

• I was the highest-paid street performer, probably, in the history of Chicago. I was making like $800 a day.

  

  R. Kelly
  • History
  • Day
  • Chicago

• When I was a kid, we would get McDonalds on Christmas Eve, and that was a big deal because the closest one to the south side of Chicago was a 35 minute drive away. I remember opening the bag and smelling those fries, and even now when I smell them, it reminds me of Christmas Eve.

  

  Jane Lynch
  • Remember
  • Christmas
  • Chicago

• I went down to Chicago to try to go into a place called Second City. I auditioned for that and got in pretty quickly, but I couldn't stop partying. They gave me a warning: 'If you do it again, we're gonna kick you off the main stage.'

  

  Chris Farley
  • Pretty
  • Stop
  • City

• The farm is one field to the east of the railroad track that used to connect New Orleans with Chicago. The track runs beside Highway 45, an old U.S. route that unites Chicago with Mobile, Alabama.

  

  Bobbie Ann Mason
  • Chicago