Rodney Atkins Quotes
You may not know it, but I was adopted as a baby by my wonderful parents, Allan and Margaret Atkins of Cumberland Gap, Tenn.
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When something happens far back in the past, people often can't recall exact details. Blame depends upon point of view. There may be a villain, but reality is frustrating because it's often ambiguous.
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Some people say I chastise the Republican Party too much.
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I'm interested in taking raw human emotions and then isolating them without any narrative structure. In order to achieve this, I try to break out of the narrative conventions that you'd see in a typical feature film.
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I hate to witness animals in captivity - or see circus elephants paraded down the streets. When animals are caged, it's a loss of what they are.
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When I was really young, I wanted to grow up and be the sun. Which shows an early penchant for ambition or narcissism or grandiosity or delusion - all of which are bellwethers for becoming a writer.
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People always comment about my clothes. They don't think a fashionable woman can love food and be knowledgeable and actually cook.
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To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.
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As an entrepreneur, what drives you has to be the good news; otherwise, you just don't get out of bed.
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In 1996, Al Jazeera was the first TV station in the Arab world to allow Israelis to appear on the screen and express their views and address the Arab world. Before that, Arab broadcasters did not allow what was perceived as the enemy to appear on the screen.
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New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.
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I was excited to get the opportunity to sing something in a movie 'cause I love musicals and I would love to be able to do more movie musicals, in the future.
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Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.
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I joke that we're not dissimilar to a rock band in the '70s.
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I'm a full-time mom right now and a part-time actress.
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Poor air quality, which can be influenced by a variety of fumes, chemicals and allergens, is arguably the leading cause of triggers for most asthmatics in urban areas.
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Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all.
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Nowadays in pop, there's not a lot of men that are singing big and loud and high - it's not as common as it once was.
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When you don't know what the band looks like, it puts the emphasis on thinking and taking the music and message more seriously.
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I know sometimes I need to be more like M.J., but M.J. also needs to be more like me. He needs to be the player he is with more my mentality.
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How did it happen that now he could see everything so clearly. Something had given him leave to live in the present. Not once in his entire life had he come to rest in the quiet center of himself but had forever cast himself from some dark past he could not remember to a future that did not exist. Not once had he been present for his life. So his life had passed like a dream. Is it possible for people to miss their lives the way one can miss a plane?
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My parents never told me I was beautiful, and for one very good reason. I wasn't. When your child is a tubby, bespectacled little oddity, as I was, it's important not to give them false expectations.
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When I told my parents that I was starting my transition, my Dad said, 'Well that makes so much more sense 'cause I never saw you any other way and now it totally works.'
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I don't think we should speak so much. What if we were singing a song? We split, whilst singing.
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You may not know it, but I was adopted as a baby by my wonderful parents, Allan and Margaret Atkins of Cumberland Gap, Tenn.
