Brenda Lee Quotes
The word matters in country music, and it always has. And everybody had lived those words in country songs.
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I don't know how I did it, but I worked 7 days a week.
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'Breaking Bad' was such a high plateau.
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The judge is forced for the most part to reach his audience through the medium of the press whose reporting of judicial decisions is all too often inaccurate and superficial.
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I couldn't follow nobody's rules.
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Going out at night and having a fabulous social life takes a lot out of you, and I don't know if I have that much to give, honestly. I would rather give that time to my kids or spend that time reading a book or watching a film. I am selfish and lazy.
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Hair and make-up always helps. I did always try to be well-groomed, professional at all times. Take your job seriously - but not yourself.
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Newspapers are busily experimenting with different models. Traditionally, and I suspect in hindsight very mistakenly, online news was free. And once given free access readers felt it was their entitlement.
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I'm annoying to be around because I keep twitching.
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Hollywood would make a holocaust an animated comedy if people would pay to see it; they don't care... they just want your money.
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Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift.
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Two days after returning from Montreal, I was training again, and I went on to win two more golds at the 1980 Moscow Olympics.
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Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one.
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We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends.
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I think when I first straightened my hair, I was a teenager. I don't believe that I was consciously doing it to look white or to be on television. It never crossed my mind. All of the girls in my neighborhood got perms and their hair straightened. But I know that historically it was to assimilate and there are some people who do it for that reason.
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I really don't know the secret to it, but I'd like to think my desirability is a combination of my personality, my image, and, most importantly, the kind of films I do.
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As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.
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These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties.
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Good architecture should be a projection of life itself, and that implies an intimate knowledge of biological, social, technical, and artistic problems.
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I always thought of myself as being part of a family and sharing and, yes, leading, but not forcing people to do anything.
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You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.
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I believe that my music is just about feelings, and the style is just a side effect.
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My all-time favorite rock and roll players were Scotty Moore, Chuck Berry and Franny Beecher, and I listened to the country playing of Merle Travis.
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The best pay off in the world is when someone comes up to you and says, 'your music has helped me with some pretty rough times through life. I don't know if I would still be here if it was for your music whether it be country music or heavy metal has done for me.' That's ultimately the biggest payoff for me. I hear it from young kids to military guys and military women to older folks.
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The word matters in country music, and it always has. And everybody had lived those words in country songs.
