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.'
Quotes to Explore
-
It's funny how a chubby kid can just be having fun, and people call it entertainment!
-
Iggy Pop has a voice that's somehow simultaneously self-mocking, wild, precise, amused, righteous, cool, contained and bold. I don't know how he does what he does.
-
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.
-
The only thing simple about the past is that it's not now.
-
I don't believe that intelligence can be reduced to a number, frankly. But I can see how doing exactly that produces a useful sorting mechanism in our society in order to separate children into categories of promising and doomed. The tests seem arbitrary and without real scientific value and yet have lasting consequences.
-
When their city was occupied by the Gauls, and the Romans, who were besieged in the Capitol, had made military engines from the hair of the women, they dedicated a temple to the Bald Venus.
-
By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme.
-
Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think.
-
I never went to stage school or anything like that. It was always plays, productions at school and things like that. The thing for me with acting was it was the only thing I could fully concentrate on. I loved playing sports. I didn't really love studying.
-
A lot of people who were writing when I came through originally as a singer-songwriter have disappeared.
-
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.
-
I placed over a thousand deaf people in jobs throughout my career working for the deaf.
-
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.
-
I figured out early on what I wanted to do.
-
The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
-
One of my other nicknames was Thomas Edison, because I invented so many moves.
-
The United States has grown into a remarkable nation specifically because of our independent spirit and free market.
-
Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.
-
We women are going to bring change. We are speaking up for girls' rights, but we must not behave like men, like they have done in the past.
-
It was important to feel that you were resisting the fascism around you. But we had no electricity to watch movies. We were imagining our movies.
-
I try to ONLY ridicule people who's efforts are sincere. Very little trouble has been caused in the world by insincere efforts. An occasional seduction maybe. There were very few insincere Stalinists or Nazis.
-
Apart from a small minority, teenage boys fall into three distinct categories: macho, metro, or just plain muddled.
-
There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
-
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.'
