Ree Drummond (Ann Marie Drummond) Quotes
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Fulfilling your mission is one thing; vision is another, and having a commitment to something leads you to do better work.
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Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it.
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If you want your children to bring original ideas into the world, you need to let them pursue their passions, not yours.
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Something that I've struggled with for awhile is looking at our country voting on sound bites, and to me, character is really important.
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I think you're lucky if you discover what you really love at a young age. College wasn't something I was going to do. I wanted to keep acting, and I didn't want to go to New York or California and pound the pavement.
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Do you know what I love about hunting? That I am no one in the woods, no one at all. I thought the animals might recognize me, but they didn't. They did not even ask me for any autographs.
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I know a lot of actors who get a part and then they dissect it and they want to change it and they want to add stuff. I'm always amazed and so impressed by actors who do that.
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Just to know that someone who's 15 years old is listening to my music and the work that I've done - it's definitely a blessing.
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I think I lost at least 40% of my fans when I became blond. They didn't recognize me anymore.
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We rarely grow when we're happy, we grow when we hurt.
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There is only one true thing: instantly paint what you see. When you've got it, you've got it. When you haven't, you begin again. All the rest is humbug.
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Well, Warren Harding, I have got you the presidency. What are you going to do with it?
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My father was a Methodist and my mother was a Baptist.
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It never became an obsession for me to score at all costs. I've always said that I'm not a big scorer, I'm a worker.
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I started writing juvenile novels around 1985. I never really thought of it as a career, but more as a way to make a living.
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Black people are pledging their fealty to the state, and yet they aren't getting the same return. This is theft. It's systemized.
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I try and stay limber, swim, run, ride motorcycles.
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It's unrealistic not to be able to indulge.
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It is some kind of miracle that all knitting is constructed of only two stitches: knit and purl. Sure, you throw in some yarn overs, and sometimes you knit the stitches out of order, but when it really comes down to it, knitting is simplicity. The most incredible gossamer lace shawl ... the trickiest aran ... a humble sock ... each just made with knit and purl.
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I acted when I was a real little kid. My mother was an actress in a Miami theater company comprised of actors from Cuba like her and I was the default kid.
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I'm not born here to have a personality. I'm here to have a spirit. Each of us is born with a purpose for being alive.
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With the work that I do as a director, I've got dialogue, camera movement, and character blocking to help create a tone to the piece. In photography, those elements are somewhat void so that tone becomes a bit more subtle but still equally important.
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I love the game of football. I've been playing since I was 6 years old, and now that I am retired and not really into it physically, it's all about the mental part of it now. It's just coaching and teaching the game.
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I had been teaching myself photography.
