Loretta Lynn Quotes

When all those city folks try to fix up my talking, all they do is mess me up.

Loretta Lynn

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• I think the best president - because he changed the whole mood of the country, the whole economy of the country, and stood up to Communism... that was continuing its causes around the world, and backed them off and caused them to collapse - and that was Ronald Reagan.

  

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• At 10, I heard Neil Diamond's 'Solitary Man' and it moved me so deeply I stood, frozen in place during school recess, feeling such empathy for the narrator in Diamond's masterpiece that my heart was smashed.

  

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• The only thing that permits human beings to collaborate with one another in a truly open-ended way is their willingness to have their beliefs modified by new facts. Only openness to evidence and argument will secure a common world for us.

  

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• What I want to give in the theatre is beauty, that's what I want to give.

  

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• When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.

  

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• Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.

  

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• I would never belong to any club that excluded anybody for race.

  

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• I can't even be around children. It's a problem. My ovaries start screaming.

  

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• I hope to continue building my acting career and work more on projects that fulfill my artistic thirst.

  

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• As football gets more globalised, it's probably more important than ever to have one or two players in your team who have grown up in the same streets or been to the same schools as the hard-core fans.

  

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• Manhattan seems pretty developed, you know what I mean? Like, it has peaked in culture.

  

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• My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.

  

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• One of my first favorite records was the debut Garbage album, which I heard when I was very young. Shirley Manson is a great female vocalist and performer and I admire her for that.

  

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• There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line.

  

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• I'm hopeful that Israelis can go to Ramallah whenever they want and see how the people are living.

  

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• But I have a list of books that I want to read before I die, and whenever I get time to read something that isn't a script, I'll read something from that.

  

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• If you were a single mom, there's no way to support yourself and your kids by working in a hair salon. It's about a woman who decides to go and do what was considered a man's job, but was treated quite horribly for it and decides she has to fight for her rights when everyone thinks she should just shut up and take it.

  

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• Sometimes I watch a scene I've written, and occasionally I think, "Oh, for God's sake, shut up."

  

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• When all those city folks try to fix up my talking, all they do is mess me up.

  

  Loretta Lynn
  • Up
  • Trying
  • City