Barbara Mandrell Quotes
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I started auditioning but at times would feel depressed, as I would get shortlisted but never received the final call. Only when the commercials were released would I come to know that I was not selected.
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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Humans are a social species more than any other, and in order to build a community, which for some reason humans have to do in order to live, we have to solve the communication problem. Language is the tool that was invented to solve that problem.
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Experience has taught me that any kind of political grouping is oppressive. It's the blind mass that crushes the individual.
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The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.
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I used to get some flack from my agents because I wouldn't even audition for parts where the hero uses violent force to be a hero.
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But as long as you're creating the art you want to create, if people start liking you, you shouldn't have to apologize. You want your stuff to be heard by as many people as possible.
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We are not the same India that the world saw in the 1970s and '80s. Hence, we have a responsibility to live up to the pedestal on which we have been put.
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Why would Senator Allen want to oppose saving money for the state? It's simply another example of Republicans fighting the governor tooth and nail against any measure where she might be able to turn the state's budget around.
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When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.
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As Governor, I've worked to solve problems the New Hampshire way - bringing together Democrats, Republicans and Independents to help hard-working Granite Staters adapt to our changing economy so that everyone has the opportunity to get ahead and stay ahead.
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PCR made it easier to see that certain people are infected with HIV.
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Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation.
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I am never without my lyric book. If anything inspirational happens, I have it there so nothing's forgotten.
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Since I was a small child, I was always writing either poems or plays... plays in which I had the starring part.
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Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us... While what we call 'our own life' remains agreeable, we will not surrender it to Him. What, then, can God do in our interests but make 'our own life' less agreeable to us, and take away the plausible sources of false happiness?
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You need to get down among the people who are the dirtiest and dustiest, and the depravity, and you need to see Christ's light shining there.
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I'm a passionate person, to a fault at times.
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Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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A lot of people don't listen to the albums. They just listen to the singles.
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I know a lot of people that had one cancer that are not alive today. I've had three. So my glass is much more than half full.
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I think that music is crucially important in Shakespeare - and, clearly, was an important part of the Elizabethan theatre. And, it's always been something that was a profound element of the experience of Shakespeare that I have been drawn to - and interpreters have, as well.
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I've been alone for about eight years and it doesn't bother me.
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When I retired from my music November 1997, it had been 37 years.
