Reba McEntire Quotes
I had lots of breaks. I guess the one that got my foot in the door was singing the National Anthem at the National Finals Rodeo in Oklahoma City in '74.
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Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.
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Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.
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I like a walking culture; I need to be in a city where you can walk everywhere.
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Ah, mastery... what a profoundly satisfying feeling when one finally gets on top of a new set of skills... and then sees the light under the new door those skills can open, even as another door is closing.
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I grew up singing Ray Charles and Jimmy Reed.
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When we started the show, 'Dallas' was known as the city where JFK was assassinated. By the end it was known as JR's home town.
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My mom helped me get started when I was younger. I started with singing. An agent saw me singing on stage at the Palm Springs Festival, and recommended I get into acting, so I was like, 'Oh, okay.' I just started from there, singing and acting.
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Myself when young did eagerly frequent doctor and saint, and heard great argument about it and about: but evermore came out by the same door as in I went.
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I think I don't sing as hard as I used to sing. I used to kind of hit the accelerator a lot back in my youth, but now it's just being able to control it, and not work it so hard and use more of an emotional or sub textual kind of approach to singing.
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I wasn't really the most charming person, socially – it took me a long time to develop my people skills – but the one place I was always comfortable was onstage, acting or singing.
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I got along with people very well at every job I had, people liked me and I liked them and I loved being on my feet.
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There are a lot of folks out there that love the convenience of the Kansas City airport. That's one of the biggest things it's got going for it.
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I left for New York expecting to repeat my success, only to be turned down by almost every publisher in that city, till the Viking Press, my American publishers of a lifetime, thought of taking me on.
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My grandmother had this high-tech security system - a rusty nail she used to lock the door.
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Dallas is a positive, get-it done city.
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Hollywood's not knocking on our door. They're banging down the door with a sledgehammer.
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I found myself at dusk in the bewitching Roman city of Jerash with H.M. Queen Rania of Jordan one year, and scrambling with hardened paparazzi to get an image of the Princess of Wales in a tiny Nepalese clinic in the foothills of the Himalayas another.
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San Francisco can no longer afford to be a city divided between downtown and neighborhoods, with a downtown that becomes a ghost town when workers go home for the evening.
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My other advice is to start writing songs and singing right away.
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I want to bring that old soul back, the meaningful lyrics and all of that. And I can't think of a better way to do that than through Motown.
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Each and every one of you has the power, the will and the capacity to make a difference in the world in which you live in. … You should go through life knowing, 'I am somebody.'
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In western culture, we have ignored death. We're running the other way - everything is about life and youth. So, there's something resonant about walking around with our own death masks. Zombies are the visible embodiment of death staring at us with our own faces.
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My father had a lot of allergies, and he just didn't like the cold of Chicago, and his father - his parents had broken up when he was young, and his father had lived in Pasadena for a while, and he kind of fell in love with Southern California.
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I had lots of breaks. I guess the one that got my foot in the door was singing the National Anthem at the National Finals Rodeo in Oklahoma City in '74.
