Loretta Lynn Quotes
Growing up in eastern Kentucky like I did, I'm used to having a few guns around to protect me.
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Broadway is really my life.
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
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It is often said by religious people that without its framework, there is no sense of right or wrong. My view is that religion comes after ethics.
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Beauty products always cheer me up and give me hope. If it makes you feel pretty, why not?
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The coolest person to yourself is yourself, and we're like nerds, and we love to be smart, and that's okay.
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I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care.
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I really wasn't even sure if I should continue acting. I would like try and figure out if I could be good enough to do it. It was like 10 or 12 years into my career before I felt like maybe I can do it. It was such a different time than now.
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The things that have really gotten confusing to me is how you balance the desires of your publishers to produce things on a schedule, and people are always sort of giving you ideas on what you should follow up with or how you should proceed next and things like that.
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You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
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I am suspicious of writers who go looking for issues to address. Writers are neither preachers nor journalists. Journalists know much more than most writers about what's going on in the world. And if you want to change things, you do journalism.
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I've never been someone who needs a lot of takes or enjoys a lot of takes. I like the fast thing of it.
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I remember having an argument with Alan, I said the Queen's not just going to call the guy up and send him out to do it. And Alan says, well, how would a monarch give orders to her assassin.
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To me, in life, if there's, like, a rule, and I think it's ridiculous, then of course I'll circumvent that but also point out how ridiculous the rule is. Other than that, if I go to a concert, and my seat is Row G, Seat 12, I'm sitting in Row G, Seat 12. I don't care if I'm with five other friends, I'm supposed to be in Seat 12, that's my seat.
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People want to imagine I spend every night going to premieres and putting on frocks and getting into limos, and yet I do that maybe twice a year, if that.
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If there were no government-guaranteed student loans, college tuition would be much lower.
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All I have to do to continue to make things work is make great records, and that's more important than having a crazy master plan.
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Time is important to me because I want to sing long enough to leave a message. I'm used to singing in churches where nobody would dare stop me until the Lord arrives!
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I think if a girl is easy to talk to then that's the first thing I look for. It's great when you meet a girl and three hours later you're like, 'Oh my gosh, we've been talking for three hours, what happened to the time?'
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Whenever anyone calls me 'The new J..K. Rowling,' I think, 'What's wrong with the old one?'
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My advice to young people is to get something that's growing because that's how you get career opportunities thrown at you that you don't deserve, if you will... that come at you early because the firms need you.
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I'm more rooted in new plays and new writing.
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You do manage a somewhat religious attitude toward your art. It is a calling rather than a job.
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Don't wait for some miracle to be performed on you from without, lifting you above your fears and doubts and self-centeredness. You help God from within by turning in outgoing love to others, and miraculously your fears and doubts and self-centeredness will vanish. The miracle starts within, not from without.
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Growing up in eastern Kentucky like I did, I'm used to having a few guns around to protect me.
