Randy Owen Quotes

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

  

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• I can never really remember what I look like. I'm just sort of neutral. I don't think I'm sort of, you know, hideous.

  

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• People, y'know, they either love us or they hate us; there's no middle ground.

  

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• The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.

  

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• I continue to be very shy. I think a lot of actors and performers are really weird, shy people working it out onstage. I don't know why that is.

  

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• I think, the people around home are very supportive to us.

  

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• You wouldn't recognize me from one project to the next.

  

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• Maven is very much a haunting presence in 'Glass Sword.' His influence is everywhere, and he dogs Mare and Cal like no other. He's my favorite character to write because he's so complex, but also because he affects everyone else so deeply. He's kind of like the source of gravity. Everyone moves around him and what he's done.

  

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• My stepfather had a connection with The Second City and told me I should go there. I woke up in a cold sweat one night and said, 'I'm moving to Chicago.' That's how I went to Second City.

  

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• There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend.

  

  Katharine Butler Hathaway
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• Now I love hoops. I'm a diehard UCLA fan, have been since my freshman year. But basketball is the '1812 Overture.' Pomp and circumstance, fireworks and cannons, lots and lots of fun, and in the end, still Tchaikovsky.

  

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• The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.

  

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• If people think I look good, it's the make-up.

  

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• My way of expression is full of complications and mystery because that's my perception of life.

  

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• To me an unnecessary action, or shot, or casualty, was not only waste but sin.

  

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• In the name of noble purposes men have committed unspeakable acts of cruelty against one another.

  

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• For all the marathons I've run, including the Ironmans that I've run, immediately after the race, I clean myself up, do whatever I need to do to make sure I'm okay, and I get right back out there, and I cheer people on. Because it's the people who come in late in the race I find most inspiring.

  

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• Everyday I walked on to the field I was the best center.

  

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• To those who are incapable of presenting the historic truth in an honest way, I want to say that Poland was not a perpetrator but a victim of World War Two.

  

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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.

  

  Randy Owen
  • Country
  • Band
  • Name