Reba McEntire Quotes
For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness.
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My mother passed when I was in the third grade, my father when I was in the seventh, and that's when I was shipped to Los Angeles to live with an aunt.
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I've listened to female vocalists my whole life. That's what I love. I still listen to guys' vocals and don't get taken aback a lot.
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I don't know what's on the other side.
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I couldn't stand back and watch the strong economy that my father envisioned go to ruins.
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I don't wish anybody ill, I really don't. I've got a lot of faults, but I was never jealous or envious or... it's a waste of time.
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Unlike fashion, art isn't applied. It doesn't have to serve anybody. It doesn't have to be there for any other reason than to give an impression of what the world is about.
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When you talk about the American League, you think of Fenway. When you talk about the National League, you think of Wrigley and the fan base that they have in Chicago.
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When I see things in the world that leap out at me, I want to make use of them in fiction. Maybe every writer does that. It just depends on what you claim or appropriate as yours.
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Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.
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And my friends, you ain't seen nothin' yet.
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I'm such a perfectionist.
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I try to avoid conflict. I don't want people to be unhappy.
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I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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The mid-day meal is a well-intentioned scheme and has to be implemented effectively.
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Overhead will eat you alive if not constantly viewed as a parasite to be exterminated. Never mind the bleating of those you employ. Hold out until mutiny is imminent before employing even a single additional member of staff. More startups are wrecked by overstaffing than by any other cause, bar failure to monitor cash flow.
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My writing has been largely concerned with the depicting of Negro life in America.
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If members of the security apparatus could, with impunity, keep from those elected by the people that which they're entitled to know - or worse, feed false information - those who could control the classified data could be the real decision makers.
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Identifying and overcoming natural fear is one of the pleasing struggles intrinsic to climbing.
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The time I'm not spending with my kid has to be worth it, so when I sat down with my agents after I was ready to go back to work, I told them: It's all about the directors.
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I love dogs. I think dogs are way smarter. Maybe I can be the dog spokesman for the rock world. There are a lot of cat people making rock music.
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I wonder if there's just a sense that we have nothing to learn from any Supreme Court justice, including the great Chief Justice John Marshall.
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For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness.
