Tanya Tucker Quotes
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I don't drink at lunchtime because I'm very weak at alcohol like most Asians.
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My parents owned a plants nursery. We all grew up growing things and planting things and selling things, and I also managed landscape crews.
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Being in this fine mood, I spoke to a little boy, whom I saw playing alone in the road, asking him what he was going to be when he grew up. Of course I expected to hear him say a sailor, a soldier, a hunter, or something else that seems heroic to childhood, and I was very much surprised when he answered innocently, 'A man.'
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The perfect day for me is waking up and having a cup of tea with my kids before I drive them to school; Then, I go into the studio and try and write some music for three or four hours and give up about noon.
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My stand-up is quite good now, people say. It's just like a big conversation each time. Every gig is a rehearsal.
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I was brought up to think a lot about food and have respect for it, both as medicine and something to eat and enjoy.
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When we stand up for America, we stand up for what America stands for, which is a safety net for our seniors and really helping our families be able to help themselves.
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All of my films have been autobiographical - it's all I've got to go on.
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I had spent time in New York, where I loved the idea that theater could be done up in tiny little rooms rather than for lots of money on a big stage, and be tied to ordinary life.
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To grow up five miles outside of the greatest city in the world is a bizarre experience.
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If I have a choice between looking something up and making it up, I'll make it up every time.
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I'm a guy of 92kg. I haven't got the physique of someone who can work back and then sprint up front again throughout a match!
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Twenty years ago I wanted to move to a nice place so our Charley would grow up a nice boy and learn a profession. But instead we live in a jungle, so he can only be a wild animal. D'you think I picked the East Side like Columbus picked America?
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I spent a couple of years not doing any music or anything, just here in Hawaii trying to get healthy and adjust to the new regimen I was setting up for myself.
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When it was time for a player to go, he went.
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If the greatest god is the stillness all the motions add up to, then we must ineluctably be included.
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I love to wear lingerie. The problem is that men always rip it off too quickly. When women are dolled up in lingerie they feel sexy. So let us wear it for five minutes.
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As one of the first employees at a small cellular phone start-up called Nextel, I gained firsthand experience in how a business grows from an idea to a company that, at its peak, employed many thousands.
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You have to take a huge loss financially to do a play. You have to put aside the commercials and the speeches and the other things that put money on the table, and really save up to do it. And that's what I've done here. But it's worth it to me to be in a really good play.
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Pretty much at all times music motivates me. How can I say this without sounding in any way proud of myself? Obviously I've always written songs that are critical of our government, and talk about our times. Hopefully you attempt to be timeless while doing it.
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Every time when they would call my name I kept hearing 'New York Knicks' instead of 'Seattle SuperSonics.'
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I don't have a partner, so I take care of the mortgage by myself, and I was thinking, 'Oh God, I'm going to have to sell the house or find a new career.' I was not in a good place, but it was a real spur to get 'The Girl on the Train' right. I had to nail it and do it really well. It really concentrates the mind, that kind of thing.
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The greatest tragedy of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is that everyone knows how it will end. We will divide up the region.
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That's the era we grew up in. It's weak to go to a psychiatrist.
