Mel Tillis Quotes
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I think that when you decide to dedicate yourself to creative endeavors and surround yourself with people who are creative, you very quickly learn how hard it is to survive doing those kinds of things, not to mention make a living at them.
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We're dealing with sophisticated customers. What's most important to these women is individuality. I have to create things she'll want to wear, no matter who she is.
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I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.
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I'm not afraid of special effects, but I see them very much as a means to an end.
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I secretly wanted to act. I also wanted be a toy designer and make puppets.
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I have been cooking with preserved lemon for years, using it left, right and centre, but I am still far from reaching my limit.
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One of the things I find depressing about some of the upper echelons of Anglicanism on both sides of the Atlantic is that it's sort of taken for granted that we all basically know what's in the Bible, and so we just glance at a few verses for devotional purposes and then get on to the real business.
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I don't think that people should wear dresses two sizes too small. I just think that sexiness is better left to the imagination. It's just more tasteful.
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I always feel like I want to work with people who raise my game, and I can do the same for them, and we can jump off the cliff together.
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My husband does not like me to give interviews because I say too much. No talk, no trouble.
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If I didn't have the wrestling name that I have, I wouldn't have gotten the financial contract that I got with Strikeforce or the long-term contract or the television contract. That's all because of wrestling.
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I think there are different ways of being rigorous, and I am asking people to be as rigorous in their pleasure as in their criticism.
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Not only may she unconsciously register a favorable impression with my associates and me, but she may also suggest something by her work that will lead to some new and novel feature in a forthcoming production.
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The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything.
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I know there are some who reject any gun safety measures. But the fact is that our intelligence and law enforcement agencies - no matter how effective they are - cannot identify every would-be mass shooter, whether that individual is motivated by ISIL or some other hateful ideology. What we can do - and must do - is make it harder for them to kill.
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Pat Buchanan likes to say we're in a culture war. The Civil War was a culture war, and brothers killed brothers. I wonder if they avoided dinner conversation about politics. What if this culture war turned into a real war? I'd look back on that dinner and wish that I'd ordered a side of argument.6
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‘you must see that if two things are alike, then it is a further question whether the first is copied from the second, or the second from the first, or both from a third.’ ‘Some that thought that all these loves were copies of our love for the landlord.’
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It is hard to have patience with people who say 'There is no death' or 'Death doesn't matter.' There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.
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The taste of democracy becomes a bitter taste when the fullness of democracy is denied.
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If you are a conservative, you think that a citizen has no right to hire another to kill him (much less to kill a third party), because life is a sacred gift that cannot be negotiated. But for the liberal, there is nothing more sacred than the right to buy and sell - even life itself: if you think your life sucks and want to hire a professional to put an end to it, neither the State nor the Church have the right to give the slightest opinion.
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I love food shows: Anthony Bourdain, Iron Chef, Chopped, you name it.
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You cannot make a business case that you should be who you are not...
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Well, no, you can prepare it all you want, but I'd still stutter.
