Loretta Lynn Quotes
Sometimes it's like you're a big pie settin' on the table, and everybody runs up and gets their piece of you. When it's over' the plate's empty.
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I'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge.
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I think Indians dress better than anyone, but I don't want to imitate more than a detail or two; I prefer my clothes humdrum and inconspicuous, and a cowboy hat just doesn't work for me.
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In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I'm against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.
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If you're going to sell stock and somebody wants to buy it at a price and that price is not a price you dictate, but demand dictates, sell it to them now.
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I think great players can play in any year, that's why they're great. A lot of it is down to the mental approach.
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I don't think about my fame very much.
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Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as strong.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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In my own life, I've seen myself ramping up the amount of text I consume digitally. For me, it's the weight and inconvenience issue – I want anything that will spare me having to carry around reams of paper.
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I wasn't interested at all in doing a documentary. I was not a public figure.
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I was so ashamed of who I was.
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Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
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Strange to say, the luminous world is the invisible world; the luminous world is that which we do not see. Our eyes of flesh see only night.
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My 'Big Bang Theory' costar Johnny Galecki went off the grid. He bought a huge ranch and goes there every weekend. He keeps telling me to do the same thing, but I don't know if I'm that committed. The Valley is as far off the grid as I'm going to go.
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Well, put it like this, if you're not a kid, you're a wizard.
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Writing is finally play, and there's no reason why you should get paid for playing.
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People don't want to serve apprenticeships any more. Kids expect to be paid and treated really well and all that guff before they've achieved anything. It doesn't work like that. You have to spend five or six years being relatively rubbish and put up with it. For that you don't deserve to be getting lottery money.
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In writing lyrics - well, for me, anyway - it's about getting into character, you know? 'Who is writing this?' In the case of the original 'Thick As A Brick,' supposedly a precocious, very young child who's fantasizing about his future and the context of all the confusing elements to which school boys are subjected at that time.
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Why would we want to do an experimental album? That's just selfish.
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I could write historical fiction, or science fiction, or a mystery but since I find it fascinating to research the clues of some little know period and develop a story based on that, I will probably continue to do it.
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I grew up listening to show tunes in the back of the car.
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People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old.
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My cat does this thing where he's so happy to see me that he repeatedly smashes his face into my face and purrs like a literal pig.
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Sometimes it's like you're a big pie settin' on the table, and everybody runs up and gets their piece of you. When it's over' the plate's empty.
