Minnie Pearl Quotes
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I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.
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Virtually every major technology has an initial spike of interest, then a dip, and then a long-term rise to success. The dot-com bubble is the canonical example, but there are many more.
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If you play good cricket, a lot of bad things get hidden.
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I used to come up with these crazy jobs to try and provoke my parents but they said, 'You can be anything you want.' So I was like, 'I want to be a garbage man' and they were like 'That's OK, we'll still love you!'
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There's this perception sometimes around here that I'm this Hollywood guy.
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We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased, we are glad. If they are not, it doesn't matter. We know we are beautiful. And ugly too.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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I decide my future. I decide what I want to do. Nobody else. If I decide this will be my last year, maybe it is. If I decide it will be my last contract, I decide that. Nobody else. So I will decide when the moment is there.
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I connect with people on a daily basis.
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Faith Hill is a big role model.
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Even the most left-wing politicians worship wealth creation - as the political-action-committee collection plate is passed.
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I love Disney. I know that some Disney stars want to break out of the Disney mold, but no, if they let me, I would work with Disney until I die.
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I've been privileged to meet presidents and sing at inaugurations and other political events.
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It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
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I can never make up my mind if I'm happy being a flute player, or if I wish I were Eric Clapton.
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I'm a character actress. I'm the girl next door, the aunt, the quirky cousin. You have to innately know who you are and be happy with that.
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The more gays and lesbians come out - the more people realize that they have a friend who's gay, which they may not have known before, and they realize this person has the same aspirations and desires and need to be committed and to be part of a community - then they become more accepting.
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Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts.
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Imagine if all those kings and dukes hadn't commissioned those crazy cathedrals, paintings and music... we'd still be living in sticks and mud. Because none of those things made any economic sense. Human beings' capacity to 'waste time' is a miracle - but that's exactly what art is for.
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If the artist only reproduces superficial features as photography does, if he copies the lineaments of a face exactly, without reference to character, he deserves no admiration. The resemblance which he ought to obtain is that of the soul; that alone matters; it is that which the sculptor or painter should seek beneath the mask of features.
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Just emotionally, as amazing as it is to win the World Cup, it's emotionally draining in many ways.
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It's the most unglamourous glamour business in the world.
