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.'

Trisha Yearwood

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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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• 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.

  

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• The secret we should never let the gamemasters know is that they don't need any rules.

  

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• 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.

  

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• By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme.

  

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• I think it's OK to be confident in yourself.

  

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• My role models were always the Pacinos and the Oldmans, the guys who get dirty with their characters, and I arrived in L.A. during the big boom of 'Dawson's Creek.' I was getting cast as the boy next door, or the friend of the jock. I thought, 'Did I really have to do all that studying?'

  

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• Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think.

  

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• 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.

  

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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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• Of all the agonies in life, that which is most poignant and harrowing--that which for the time annihilates reason, and leaves our whole organization one lacerated, mangled heart--is the conviction that we have been deceived where we placed all the trust of love.

  

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• I'm more relaxed about life now that I'm older. I like it, despite the wrinkles. It's what I feel inside that's precious.

  

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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.'

  

  Trisha Yearwood
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