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 mean, we're going to probably debate the Iraq war for at least as long as I'm alive.
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From my point of view, why shouldn't I work in every possible mode, to see if it's viable? "Los Gigantes" would not have worked as a straightforward, naturalistic tale. Part of the fun of it is that it's so preposterous and yet at the same time, it could have happened. Think of eugenics. Hitler certainly would have been doing it if he could have.
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Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.
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There's definitely a tension between the way teaching is talked about and understood at the political level and how everyday average Americans think about teachers.
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There's something about light field photography that's just magical.
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I had been teaching myself photography.
