Ralph Stanley Quotes
I think - I really think my voice has gotten better in the last two or three years. I don't know why. I've been doing a lot of - a lot more lead singing, and everybody tells me that my voice was better than ever and I agree with them. Maybe I've learned to do more with it. I don't know what.
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I tend to lean toward strong female stories. I want to make things that don't already exist out there.
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It just seems like the most fun thing in the world. I've never met people who have kids who haven't looked me in the eye and been like, 'It's the greatest thing that's ever happened.'
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I would bump A Tribe Called Quest in my car all day.
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When men I have dated over the years whined about, 'Oh, you make no time for me' - see ya! I just dumped them. I don't need that pressure in my life.
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I don't like messing up. I think that's just a part of my personality. I don't like to mess up or do anything wrong. When I'm in gymnastics, I like to see my hit percent as high as possible.
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The thing about dating someone who listens to a totally different genre than you is they can help you find things to appreciate in that genre.
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I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
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Just after graduation in 1966, like many of my contemporaries, I applied for research training at the National Institutes of Health. Perhaps because his wife was a poet, Ira Pastan agreed to take me into his laboratory, despite my lack of scientific credentials.
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People ask what my goal is. I don't have a goal.
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We have lost a lot of ground to the extremists in the Middle East.
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The common base of all the Semitic creeds, winners or losers, was the ever present idea of world-worthlessness. Their profound reaction from matter led them to preach bareness, renunciation, poverty; and the atmosphere of this invention stifled the minds of the desert pitilessly.
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Most of the competition was into bulk popcorn because of the major increases in the Drive-In Theatre Outlets.
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Anytime I audition for something, it's always a question of whether or not the people I'm auditioning for understand I'm an improviser and I like to do that, and if they like that or if they just want someone who's going to do what's written.
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I'm not a person who embraces challenges. I run from challenges. I break world records running from challenges.
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I like being by myself.
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The universe, when you leave it alone, is going to be beautiful.
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After I won the Tony Award, the film floodgates opened, so I was like a kid in a candy store.
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It's an interesting but useless bit of information that every single character in 'The Lord of the Rings' and 'The Hobbit' wears a wig, and many of them wears a prosthetic - false ears, feet, hands. In my case, nose.
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Long Kiss Goodnight has a huge cult following. They could make another version of that movie right now and make a lot of money.
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A completely disrespectful photographer was asked to stop taking photographs, and then said, 'I've got what I want. What are you going to do about it?' How would you feel if somebody walked up and started taking your photograph? I don't think you'd be very happy.
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We should be able to have a little more fun. I think it's entertainment to the fans.
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I was so lost back then,But with a little help from my friendsI found a light in the tunnel at the end.Now you're calling me up on the phone,So you can have a little whine and a moan.And it's only because you're feeling alone.
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I just feel so fortunate and so blessed to have been able to entertain people in the theatres and on record, it's just an amazing life that I've experienced.
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I think - I really think my voice has gotten better in the last two or three years. I don't know why. I've been doing a lot of - a lot more lead singing, and everybody tells me that my voice was better than ever and I agree with them. Maybe I've learned to do more with it. I don't know what.
