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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I'm a natural. That's why I make the big bucks.
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I had luck, but I worked hard and I suffered. It's not just photography I'm talking about. It's about whatever dream you want it to be.
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A movie is painting, it's photography, it's literature - because you have to have the screenplay - it's music. Put a different soundtrack to a comedy and it's a tragedy. A movie combines all those forms and forces you to pay attention for two hours with a group of people.
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What a teacher needs to know about psychology "might almost be written on the palm of one's hand."
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Photography's future is infinite and bright. It's growing exponentially, so that's great, but for me as a practitioner, that exponential growth makes it even more problematic. And so for me, it's got me more engaged with storytelling.
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I had been teaching myself photography.
