Ernest Jennings Ford (Tennessee Ernie Ford) Quotes
When you do a show five days a week and one night a week, the way I was doing, you use up so much music every day that pretty soon you find yourself hustling for material.
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I listen to Helmet - and I love Helmet, they're a great band - but every song sounds the same.
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
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There is a tendency by a lot of officials to hide behind the king. And it's about time that officials take their responsibility and are responsible in front of the people.
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There is no diplomacy like candor.
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I try to be as ignorant about things as I can.
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The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.
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Girls, to me, growing up were very, very petty and didn't want me to succeed and didn't want the best for me.
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It's my deepest interest as an actor: I love discovering how human beings work, how their flaws reveal themselves - how to learn and grow from that - and how characters teach me things as a woman and as a parent.
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Now I want to make it plain that 'The Virgin Spring' must be regarded as an aberration. It's touristic, a lousy imitation of Kurosawa.
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I know I'm not a conventional beauty. You can read a lot of painful things on the Internet, which criticise you aesthetically - but as far as I'm concerned, that's not what an actress is.
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This is the price you pay for having a great father. You get the wonder, the joy, the tender moments - and you get the tears at the end, too.
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Then this will only prove again and again, that Monarchy in Germany is he longer capable of a national act.
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Love stories are probably all I've ever been able to write or want to write.
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If the world's leaders are serious about improving collective well-being, we'd better get serious about prioritizing education in our nations and in our global discussion.
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Winning is about heart, not just legs. It's got to be in the right place.
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I don't know many South Africans who don't have their eyes wide open to what it's like to be exposed to some sort of violence. The question is whether we choose to be cynical about it or not.
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I have three libraries. As a gift, a friend alphabetized and organized my main library of novels, history books, and nonfiction. Then I have a photo-book collection. Then there's this nearly whole room of my childhood books. I've also got cookbooks and a big collection of horse-related books.
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It's Nixon who created the Environmental Protection Agency. Clean Air and Water Acts. Endangered Species Act. Promoted affirmative action. One could go on and on with Nixon as a New Deal liberal on domestic policy and a hawk, but one with great geo-political skills.
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The American public will give you an awful lot of slack on how you voted on one issue or another if they feel like you have a reason.
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For me, 'Rent' was all about coming out of myself, finding out who I was, learning the power I could have as a performer.
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Life's too short for anxious score-keeping
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Complexity begets ambiguity, which yields in all ways to prejudice and avarice. Complication does not so much defeat Men as arm them with fancy.
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When you do a show five days a week and one night a week, the way I was doing, you use up so much music every day that pretty soon you find yourself hustling for material.
