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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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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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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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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I was just totally taken by Michael Jackson when I was a little kid, like everyone else.
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Original thought, original artistic expression is by its very nature questioning, irreverent, iconoclastic.
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My characters aren't losers. They're rebels. They win by their refusal to play by everyone else's rules.
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The great thing about James Baldwin and his writing is that it's still fresh every time you pick it up. That's also the sad thing about his writing sometimes, too.
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For the first five years of music and first five years of acting, I don't remember it because I was running to where I was going. Finally I was like, 'Man, I missed everything.' So I just stopped, and I started looking around.
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More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.
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It's been with us for a millennium, and we'll still be carrying around cash for a long time to come. There'll just be less of it.
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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.
