Ernest Jennings Ford (Tennessee Ernie Ford) Quotes
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Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
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When I grew up, my role model was my grandma because she's just the best.
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I like to work on T.V. because it's like a normal thing, and then I like to do movies when I'm on break or hiatus.
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Architecture begins where engineering ends.
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I'm very independent, creatively, always trying to push myself - and I think that comes from my mother.
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You know, one of the things I like about this world, or at least I like about the way we're presenting this world, is these issues are terribly complicated - not nearly as black and white as we're led to believe.
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You reach a point in your career when the weeks turn into a month or more of the phone not ringing.
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'The Art Student's War' is, at its core, a traditional American wartime love story. As such, it is timely and engrossing. By the end, all its principal characters 'have been to Hell and back.'
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It was only after university that I said to myself that I had to take the risk and have a serious go at acting. It's such a bizarre profession, because you have to be totally tough to deal with all those times when you're being turned down, and then really soft in order to access your character's emotions.
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If there's an incursion I don't go out of the house.
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Paris can be like the land of the Lotus-Eaters. You can't leave.
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They that are of the flesh cannot do the works of the Spirit, neither can they that are spiritual do the works of the flesh, even as faith cannot do the works of unbelief, nor unbelief the works of faith.
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In order to fulfill the aspirations of masses, we have to sharpen the tool called the government machinery: we have to make it keen, more dynamic, and it is in this direction that we are working.
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Getting in and out of a character takes its own time for me.
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If I thought that any of this was pre ordained, then it takes away any kind of incentive to struggle, or to put up with things, to reach for those impossible dreams, all those dramatic things.
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I respect Marvel as a company, and I think they're great, but never in my life have I looked up to being a superhero.
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You're not going to have something set on a council estate that explores all elements of human existence, the variety of experience inherent in any community.
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Danzon is my favorite Cuban music, played by a traditional string orchestra with flute and piano. It's very formally structured but romantic music, which derives from the French-Haitian contradance.
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Tinashe doing 'I Wanna Get Better' - it's a really personal song, and it was hard for me to imagine anyone else doing it, but stylistically her and I are so incredibly different that I was fascinated to hear what she'd do with it, and I completely loved it. It just felt like the different expression of a song that, to me, was so stamped in one way.
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Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.
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Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.
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I sometimes get that wonderful sympathy between me and the audience, telling me I've reached their hearts. And when I do, the thrill is mine.
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Know yourself -- and know your audience.
