Reba McEntire Quotes
Everything I've done in my career is a result of growing up in rural Oklahoma, because if I hadn't had the training from Mama and Daddy to work hard, to do what I'm told, to take directions, to mind and to do a good job at anything I set out to do, then I wouldn't be where I am today.
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Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.
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Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes.
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Books are up against TV and movies and video games and a multimedia society that is so busy that people don't have contemplative time any more. I worry deeply about this. In fact, I worry about everything all the time. I used to be a punk. All I wanted to do was tear everything down, and that was so much easier.
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I acted when I was a real little kid. My mother was an actress in a Miami theater company comprised of actors from Cuba like her and I was the default kid.
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I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.
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I ride my bike for transportation a great deal - occasionally I ride it for fun. But I also have a generator bike that's hooked up to my solar battery pack, so if I ride 15 minutes hard on my bike, that's enough energy to toast toast, or power my computer.
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Love is dangerous; it's not something to be trifled with. As good as it feels on the way in, it feels that much worse on the way out.
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During the long process of history, by relying on our own diligence, courage and wisdom, Chinese people have opened up a good and beautiful home where all ethnic groups live in harmony and fostered an excellent culture that never fades.
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Great writing is great writing. It's as simple as all that.
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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I've worked my whole life and never missed a deadline.
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Whenever you do an animated project or a voice-over project it's inevitable that part of your personality comes into play.
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In sport, a massive amount is to do with genetics.
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I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.
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I've always wanted to work with Paul Newman. I had a couple opportunities in the past, and I didn't take advantage of it, so it was really fun to be working with him.
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War is good when good survives and evil is crushed. If you don't crush evil then evil will get you.
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You've got no chance of reaching the top if you're just playing for money.
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I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.
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The best way to travel abroad is to live with the locals.
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The 'modern' air-traffic-control system, and the FAA itself, was created in the aftermath of one of the most dramatic commercial midair bashes, way back in 1956.
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I'm a vegetarian, but I don't expect other people not to eat meat.
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The African-American community still needs to come together as one and stand up for rights of the people and of what's happening in their culture, their community.
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Everything I've done in my career is a result of growing up in rural Oklahoma, because if I hadn't had the training from Mama and Daddy to work hard, to do what I'm told, to take directions, to mind and to do a good job at anything I set out to do, then I wouldn't be where I am today.
