Reba McEntire Quotes
When you're a very ambitious person, the things that are disappointing are when other people around you aren't as enthusiastic.
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When I have people around, I'm a chatterbox. But when I'm alone, I never speak. I don't talk to myself; it's just not my schtick.
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I think downloading is both saving and killing the music industry at the same time.
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There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.
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The romanticised life, where all the great poetry and music and art of the world comes from, is great but it requires a lot of self-indulgence.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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All peoples have contributed to the overall progress and enhancement of human life.
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In tennis, because of the way it's scored, I don't think that scoring one point out of luck is ever decisive in winning. But, of course, it depends on the moment.
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I never been a hater of these other cats, who never really had nothing, being successful. That's not my problem.
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I do have the sense that, although there may be no one way to write a novel, there are many novelists who are in fact part of some sort of larger literary community, whether in the form of a writing group or an MFA program, to name two of the more common forms.
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After 'Heart Skips A Beat' hit No.1, I barely had a chance to celebrate 'cos it was straight over to the judges' houses for the 'Xtra Factor,' filming in Greece, L.A. and Spain.
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I warm up with my mom and make sure I understand what the songs are about and make sure I'm using the right technique. To be honest with you, I really don't practice a lot... Usually, I say a prayer and ask the Lord to sing with me and help me and stand on the stage with me.
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The whole fame question is one that is constantly intriguing to me. I think that fame is something that other people create about you. Whether you jump into that or not is up to you – and whether you have the talents for jumping into it or not.
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I think the key to getting rid of illegal immigration, no matter where its coming from, is that you need to have a good legal apparatus for immigration.
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All people, regardless of whether they're athletes or not, should treat people the way they want to be treated.
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The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated.
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I have had someone ask me to sign their 'Team Taylor' panties. She wasn't a teenager. She was in her 40s.
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What is exciting is not for one person to be stronger than the other... but for two people to have met their match and yet they are equally as stubborn, as obstinate, as passionate, as crazy as the other.
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You count a man's U.S. Amateur titles after he starts winning professional majors. That's something any intelligent golf writer with a sense of history is supposed to know.
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To hear the Japanese plead for free trade is like hearing the word love on the lips of a harlot.
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For the vast majority of my adult life, I was a freelance writer, forever scrambling for work that paid an insulting non-amount.
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There's enough on this planet for everyone's needs but not for everyone's greed.
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Whenever things go a bit sour in a job I'm doing, I always tell myself, 'You can do better than this.'
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Cuban artists had, for a while, a privileged position within Cuba that is probably going to become slightly less restricted to them. I think they'll continue to join the international art world, so those people who are extremely successful will become even more so and those who are struggling will continue to struggle.
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When you're a very ambitious person, the things that are disappointing are when other people around you aren't as enthusiastic.
