Mickey Gilley Quotes

Don't all the girls get prettier at closing time?

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• Cinema affects everything, from the way I get dressed to how I build my stages.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Everything
  • Build
  • Cinema

• Kids are taking music for free all the time. They have Spotify, Pandora... The record companies aren't making the kind of music that they used to make. Artists make their money on tours, not from album sales.

  

  Malcolm D. Lee
  • Time
  • Music
  • Money

• There was definitely a time where I did not believe in the Lord. I needed to understand the love of God.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • Time
  • God
  • Believe

• Men are every bit as gendered as women.

  

  Jackson Katz
  • Men
  • Women
  • Bit

• I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Think
  • Relationship
  • Poetry

• I was popular. I wasn't the most popular. But I definitely held my own.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • Popular
  • Own
  • Most

• Don't take 'no' for an answer.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Answer
  • Take

• Whatever one thinks of the wisdom of building a mosque near Ground Zero, this controversy now affords us an immense opportunity to examine who we are as a people. It provides us with the opportunity to get back to our foundational ideals, which have always stood as a beacon for the rest of the world.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • People
  • World
  • Opportunity

• I have a little dictaphone and if a sound takes my fancy or if a lyric comes to me in the middle of the night I'll just record it there and then.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Night
  • Sound
  • Record

• Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.

  

  Ovid
  • Hope
  • Fear
  • Minds

• How'm I doing?

  

  Ed Koch
  • Doing

• My politics are private, but many of my feminist politics cross over into my professional life.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Life
  • Politics
  • Professional

• I love my life. I love my work. I love my training. It's all due to my love for life, my love for people. I'm very happy to be alive.

  

  Ilya Ilyin
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• It's true I don't tolerate fools but then they don't tolerate me, so I am spiky. Maybe that's why I'm quite good at playing spiky elderly ladies.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • Fools
  • Tolerate
  • Ladies

• By cultivating friendliness towards happiness and compassion towards misery, gladness towards virtue and indifference towards vice, the mind becomes pure.

  

  Patanjali
  • Mind
  • Compassion

• We came into a homeless frontier, a place where we were not welcome, where nothing that lived was welcome, where thought and logic were abhorrent and we were frightened, but we went into this place because the universe lay before us, and if we were to know ourselves, we must know the universe...

  

  Clifford D. Simak
  • Universe
  • Logic
  • Homeless

• It is a wake-up call for all of us unless we put our house in order. The people of this country are becoming restless.

  

  Arun Jaitley
  • People
  • Up
  • Country

• I grew up beyond proud - we didn't have much, but we had a lot of love.

  

  Frankie Valli Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons
  • Up
  • Proud

• If I end up having a novel that sells really well and that allows me to pay for health insurance and mortgage without having to work at a day job, that would be great.

  

  Ken Liu
  • Up
  • Work
  • Great

• There are a lot of female characters out there that, when they fall on hard times, they sort of stew in their fears and negativities and vulnerabilities. And there's something that's really truthful about that - when I've gone through hard times or breakups, I've spent a lot of time on my couch overeating and crying with friends, that's true.

  

  Ari Graynor
  • Time
  • Friends
  • True

• When I do entertain, in the summer, which is rare, I receive my guests on the front porch, set up wicker trays found at Pottery Barn, and serve iced beverages. Anytime I do welcome friends, it's always a tray of canapes or Planters peanuts, jellied candy from Paris, and a good bottle of Sancerre.

  

  Andre Leon Talley
  • Up
  • Good
  • Friends

• Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you?

  

  Fanny Brice
  • World
  • Think
  • Know

• If fashion has a political significance, it is probably culturally, as a camouflage.

  

  Liz Goldwyn
  • Political
  • Fashion

• Don't all the girls get prettier at closing time?

  

  Mickey Gilley
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