Ernest Jennings Ford (Tennessee Ernie Ford) Quotes
You can keep rummaging around until you find a song you like, but you can't predict whether it'll hit or not.
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The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
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My favorite actresses were Geraldine Paige, Anne Bancroft and Kim Stanley.
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I think that the greatest lesson I learned from my father is just having compassion towards people.
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To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.
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It's not my job to get really personal in how I express myself. I've met fans, and they've been lovely. But letting my personal life out there, I don't think is a good idea for me. I think the more you do that, the more you can be accused of encouraging that kind of attention.
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I suppose being quite young and being thrust quite dramatically into a large public arena skewered my vision of what it means to live and be a part of something.
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I've always been interested in the gangster genre, so to play Mickey Cohen was a real thrill. It's always fun to do your take on someone so iconic.
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I wrote 'My Name is Red' just to remember painting, where the hand does it before the intellect. When I'm captive to it, I'm a happier person. Kierkegaard tells us that a happy person is someone who lives in the present; the unhappy person, someone who lives either in the past or the future.
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Hear the mellow wedding bellsGolden bells!What a world of happiness their harmony foretellsThrough the balmy air of nightHow they ring out their delight!
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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.
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Love is the law, love under will.
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There are huge pain points experienced by parents. It's hard to find good child care options in one place. It's hard figure out things to do with your kids on the weekends or after school. It's hard to find iPad apps for your kids that you are confident are helping them learn vs. just being entertained.
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When you look at me, you can't really tell what I am, but I'm black, white, Native, Spanish, and a little bit of Filipino.
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'The Dictator' - well, that was just a comedy, and I suppose the morality was incidental. It was just something to try and make people laugh rather than being a serious thing.
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I try to show compassion to people I come into contact with and try to put good out, as much good as I can. But that's my life; that's not my work. With my work, my job is to walk in another man's shoes.
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Show me a person who has never made a mistake and I'll show you somebody who has never achieved much.
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When I get a script that has the opportunity to create discussion and inspire young girls, I don't want to say no to that... I just want to contribute.
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Once I've designed something, I immediately move on to the next thing.
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True originality has its foundations in the soul, not in the mind, and when there is an effort to create something different it is usually a failure. Beethoven or Schumann or Chopin did not try to be original. They were original.
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Politics is in a crisis because it's separated from our deep humanity.
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I always communicate musically. I want my band not only to learn the form and feel of the song by ear, like I do, but also have the freedom to contribute.
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As an actor, the thing I want to do to an audience is always be ahead of them and always be surprising in the work without deviating from the writer's intention.
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To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture.
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You can keep rummaging around until you find a song you like, but you can't predict whether it'll hit or not.
