Tracy Lawrence Quotes

I'm like an old turtle these days. I don't run wide-open everywhere, but at the end of the day, I'll be where I'm supposed to be.

Tracy Lawrence

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• I was actually pretty shy in school. My defense mechanism was to be the class clown. I remember getting into a lot of trouble for being disruptive, and I was brought in front of the headteacher, who said: 'What's going to happen to you; what are you going to do when you grow up?' and I said: 'Well, I'm obviously going to be a comedian.'

  

  Adam Clayton U2
  • Up
  • School
  • Remember

• Another example of that was that even during the economic problems of the 1945 government, we managed to carry out other aspects of our policy and other ideals. Through the establishment of national parks, for instance.

  

  Barbara Castle
  • Government
  • Problems
  • Carry

• I can't do choreographed movement. It has to come from my heart... and my pelvis.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Heart
  • Movement
  • Come

• On the whole, when the unexpected danger happens to you, you're thinking so fast, you're thinking so hard, every bit of you is alive to 'What should I do?' 'What can I do?' There isn't a lot of time for contemplation.

  

  Kate Adie
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Unexpected

• Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it's not like you're going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened.

  

  Jack Kornfield
  • Different
  • Spiritual
  • Emotional

• Not one black man is prominent in Brazil. The Negroes there are still at the bottom.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Man
  • Black
  • Brazil

• Don't judge me. I made a lot of money.

  

  Samantha Bee
  • Money
  • Me
  • Judge

• You know what I would love? I would love to be one of those actresses who can come out with a film or come out with a new commercial without the world knowing about it.

  

  Farrah Fawcett
  • World
  • Love
  • Know

• My novels are about a generation of Americans who lived between 1940 and 2000, who resisted the postwar political and cultural forces by choosing a wandering life of impoverishment and wonder. Inevitably, race and economics are a big part of their stories. Childhood, childishness, and children are never far.

  

  Fanny Howe
  • Life
  • Children
  • Political

• If you have the same drive and passions that everybody else has - for example, if you're trying to do the right thing for your family and do the right thing for people you employ - then you can be forgiven quite a lot.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • People
  • Trying
  • Family

• Some batters, and good ones too, scoff at the whole theory of place hitting, calling it a myth. They are wrong, however.

  

  Edd Roush
  • Good
  • Place
  • Theory

• After Land I wanted to continue exploring the theme but I needed a new challenge so turned to colour. I explored Bradford and produced a series of urban landscapes that I liked, but because Land had made such an impact on the general public my colour work wasn't reviewed.

  

  Fay Godwin
  • Work
  • Challenge
  • Impact

• I grew up in Mexico, not the U.S., and the fact is that there just aren't any parts for Latin actresses. I have to persuade people that my accent won't be a problem, but an asset.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • People
  • Up
  • Problem

• I was evidence of the theory that books are made out of other books . . . But I did not remain so for long, nor do I believe any potential writer could.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • Believe
  • Long

• I think modern educational theorists are inclined to attach too much importance to the negative virtue of not interfering with children, and too little to the positive merit of enjoying their company.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Children
  • Positive

• Woman would be more charming if one could fall into her arms without falling into her hands.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Fall

• There was nothing in this world that was not a con, suddenly I understood this. Nothing really mattered, and nothing could be lost.

  

  Miranda July
  • Lost
  • Nothing
  • Understood

• My first real acting job was 'Skins' at eighteen years old, and I just kind of grew into myself in those two years; I would have done terribly if I'd have got that job at sixteen.

  

  Luke Pasqualino
  • Real
  • Done
  • Job

• A lesson will keep repeating itself until it is learned. Life first will send the lesson to you in the size of a pebble; if you ignore the pebble, then life will send you a brick; if you ignore the brick, life will send you a brick wall; if you ignore the brick wall, life will send you a demolition truck.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Wall
  • Ignore

• Better to follow a woman’s example than mindlessly heed the dictates of men.

  

  Connie Brockway
  • Men
  • Woman
  • Follow

• I'm like an old turtle these days. I don't run wide-open everywhere, but at the end of the day, I'll be where I'm supposed to be.

  

  Tracy Lawrence