Mel Tillis Quotes
You know, being an entertainer is partly being on the road, and a lot of your songs come from the road.
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You know, I am a Leo. Lion is a giant part of me.
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How can you be on top of the things you do? I think when you are involved in a business, first of all you need to know the business. After that you know the business, you can - the numbers tell you what is happening. You can read with the numbers.
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The words of truth are always paradoxical.
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I love the early films of Al Pacino - 'Scarface,' 'Serpico' - and I love many science-fiction films.
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Actors make less than you think.
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Like parents, cooks shouldn't have favourites, but some recipes inevitably shine more than others.
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My main goal as a songwriter is to make something that inspires people. To write things about my life that people can relate to. Whether it's a whole record or just one song for someone, I hope it can do that for them. Knowing that I have the ability to do that is inspiring to me.
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That's my opportunity to hide behind that old lady and say what I want to say.
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I am not a method actor, though I studied for a year with Lee Strasburg.
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I made nothing happen very slowly.
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When people have lost their jobs or are afraid of losing their jobs in the future, they lash out. They want others to know about their fears, their pain.
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Men fall in love with their eyes - they like what they see - and women fall in love with their ears - they like what they hear!
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A lot of movies are made to make us dream.
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I've always maintained - a captain is only as good as his team. It is not about my leadership, it is not about me.
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Perhaps 10 percent of patients who are prescribed antidepressants are really benefiting from the drugs' active ingredients.
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The journey that I have undertaken, meeting people from all walks of life and learning from them, has been my biggest achievement.
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Many people in the West do not realise how oppressive some Muslim states are - both for men and for women. This is a cultural issue, not an Islamic one.
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Im very nurturing.
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Really, having a gun registry and having to rely on the government to keep it secret, the government isn't so great at keeping confidences.
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When I'm on the road, I wake up early and walk a lot. I'm very healthy. But when I come back home, I am more tempted by guilty pleasures, such as eating too many sweets and sleeping a lot.
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In my personal life, I really like the look of vests. I wear fitted, business ones, and perfectly preppy sweater vests that I can knit myself.
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Why has elegance found so little following? That is the reality of it. Elegance has the disadvantage, if that's what it is, that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it.
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Those qualities of bodies that cannot be intended and remitted [i.e., qualities that cannot be increased and diminished] and that belong to all bodies on which experiments can be made should be taken as qualities of all bodies universally.
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You know, being an entertainer is partly being on the road, and a lot of your songs come from the road.
