Trisha Yearwood Quotes
I was very dramatic - very, like, 'It's never going to happen. My life is over at 16 because I'm not already famous. I'm not going to get my record deal. I'm not going to be able to sing for a living.'
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I have to protect myself because people think that because you come into 25 million homes every week, they know you. I walk the line between being gracious and being rude.
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The only thing simple about the past is that it's not now.
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A lot of people who were writing when I came through originally as a singer-songwriter have disappeared.
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Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance.
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I placed over a thousand deaf people in jobs throughout my career working for the deaf.
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I am happy everywhere except in places where I see glitz and rich farts. I am happiest in Brooklyn, where the concentration of rich farts is minimal.
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I figured out early on what I wanted to do.
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The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
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The United States has grown into a remarkable nation specifically because of our independent spirit and free market.
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Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.
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I've been a Yankees fan since I was six.
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There is nothing in the universe that I fear, but that I shall not know all my duty, or shall fail to do it.
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Every single being, even those who are hostile to us, is just as afraid of suffering as we are, and seeks happiness in the same way we do. Every person has the same right as we do to be happy and not to suffer. So let's take care of others wholeheartedly, of both our friends and our enemies. This is the basis for true compassion.
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Her pupils were at once her salvation and her despair. They gave her the means of supporting life, but they made life hardly worth supporting.
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Radio 4 Extra is the network which offers the broadcasting version of eternal life.
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I was very dramatic - very, like, 'It's never going to happen. My life is over at 16 because I'm not already famous. I'm not going to get my record deal. I'm not going to be able to sing for a living.'
