Tennessee Quotes - Page 2

• One of the teams (Tennessee) that jumped us had the same game that we had. They're down, they're playing at home and they win by a field goal. Another team (Florida) that jumped us wasn't even playing. They were home eating cheeseburgers and they end up jumping us. That befuddles me.

  Charlie Weis

  Team, Home, Winning

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• Personally, I'd like as many children as I can pop out, I reckon. You come from a happy family; you want to create a happy family. And in the same breath, I'd like to be on stage at England's National Theatre, doing Miller and Chekhov. Give me a Sam Mendes/Tennessee Williams combination-that would be glorious. And to be making some Oscar-worthy movies with Scorsese. I'm always looking for the hard road. That way, you remain interested and interesting. Hopefully.

  Emilia Clarke

  Children, Giving, Interesting

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• When I was in Nashville, Tennessee in 1970 with Derek and the Dominoes, I went into this shop and they had a rack of Strats and Teles - all going for $100.00 each. I bought a handfull and made Blackie out of the body from one, the neck from another, and so on

  Eric Clapton

  Music, Nashville, Body

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• I grew up in Tennessee. We didn't know what Louis Vuitton was. I had to order all my prom outfits out of catalogs.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Order, Louis Vuitton, Grew Up

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I come from this really small town near Nashville, Tennessee, where everything was la-di-da and normal.

  Miley Cyrus

  Nashville, Towns, Normal

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• I’m really looking forward to embracing some of the great traditions at the University of Tennessee, for instance the Vol Walk, running through the T, singing Rocky Top all night long after we beat Florida next year. It will be a blast

  Lane Kiffin

  Running, Night, Years

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• I can't control what other people do or say. I can only control the one vote I've been bestowed upon by the people in the Tennessee Valley.

  Mo Brooks

  People, Valleys, Vote

  "10 Freshmen Lawmakers Talk With Diane Sawyer". Interview with Diane Sawyer, abcnews.go.com. August 1, 2011.

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• I've got high standards when it comes to boys. As my dad says, all girls should! I'm from the South - Tennessee, to be exact - and down there, we're all about southern hospitality. I know that if I like a guy, he better be nice, and above all, my dad has to approve of him!

  Miley Cyrus

  Girl, Dad, Father

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• One of the central memories of my childhood is of hunting - not well; I am a terrible shot - quail and dove and grouse on a farm on the Tennessee River.

  Jon Meacham

  Memories, Hunting, Rivers

  "TEAM OBAMA BEGINS PLANNING $1 BILLION REELECTION CAMPAIGN - Party members may mix across aisle for State of the Union - Au revoir, Chairman Steele -- Taylor and Amy Gross have #3, a girl" by Mike Allen, www.politico.com. January 14, 2011.

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• I'm from Tennessee. My mom lives in Nashville. I'm born and bred country. That's all I listen to.

  Lucy Hale

  Mom, Country, Nashville

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• Tennessee Williams was a gifted talker with a beautiful accent and we had lots of things in common.

  Gloria Swanson

  Beautiful, Common, Accents

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• I'm from Middlesboro, Ky., a little town on the Tennessee and Virginia border.

  Lee Majors

  Virginia, Borders, Littles

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• Dolly Parton made me chicken and dumplings. That Tennessee woman can burn some pots! And we know that I am not necessarily shy to a fork!

  Queen Latifah

  Shy, Pot, Dumplings

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• I said to Tennessee, this thing is becoming the Marlon Brando show.

  Elia Kazan

  Becoming, Said, Shows

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• I met my wife and, for the next ten years, we did no films at all. She did the first movie and then I did several after. My first movie was written by Tennessee Williams and directed by [Elia] Kazan and was called Baby Doll.

  Eli Wallach

  Baby, Years, Wife

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I do a lot of American plays. I've done a lot of Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams and Neil Simon. I was in 'Sisters Rosensweig,' 'Six Degrees of Separation,' all of that stuff. So we're very familiar with America. I did 400 performances of 'Born Yesterday.' I did 700 performances of 'They're Playing Our Song.'

  Jacki Weaver

  Song, America, Play

  "Jacki Weaver Interview ANIMAL KINGDOM". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. August 12, 2010.

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• I had someone correct my grammar once on a blind date, and within the first 10 minutes the date was over. You just don't correct somebody's grammar. That's just not okay. I'm from Tennessee, so I probably say everything wrong. I might have said ain't, or something like that.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Over You, Might, Firsts

  "Reese Witherspoon Dishes on Her Worst Blind Date". Interview with Crystal Bell, www.seventeen.com. December 17, 2010.

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• I took guitar a while back, and my heart wasn't in it at the time, but I'm ready to try it again. I sing in the car, at home - it's a huge part of my life, especially since I'm from Tennessee.

  Lucy Hale

  Home, Heart, Guitar

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• The global environment crisis is, as we say in Tennessee, real as rain, and I cannot stand the thought of leaving my children with a degraded earth and a diminished future.

  Al Gore

  Children, Real, Rain

  Al Gore (2013). “Earth in the Balance: Forging a New Common Purpose”, p.16, Routledge

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• Tennessee's a hillbilly dumping ground, and Georgia's a lousy state too.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Georgia, Hillbilly, States

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• I definitely used to lie about my age. I'm from Tennessee and everyone would vacation in Destin, Florida, where there are lots of cute guys. I would go with my older sister and lie about my age to them.

  Lucy Hale

  Cute, Lying, Vacation

  "An In-Depth Conversation With the Cast of 'Pretty Little Liars'". Interview with Natasha Vargas-Cooper, bullettmedia.com. March 12, 2012.

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• Shame about how we’re gonna die here, though. I mean, seriously. An Arab and a half-Jew enter a store in Tennessee. It’s the beginning of a joke, and the punch line is “sodomy’’.

  John Green

  Mean, Half, Lines

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.35, Penguin

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• The people in this house, I felt, and I included myself, were like characters each from a different grim and gruesome fairy tale. None of us was in the same story. We were all grotesques, and self-riveted, but in separate narratives, and so our interactions seemed weird and richly meaningless, like the characters in a Tennessee Williams play, with their bursting unimportant, but spell-bindingly mad speeches.

  Lorrie Moore

  Character, Self, Play

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• I love Tennessee, but they don't have the pine trees and the sandy soil and the black water that I grew up around.

  Josh Turner

  Water, Tree, Black

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• I'm from around Tennessee. I ran away when I was 12 years old and I ain't never looked back.

  Denzel Washington

  Years, Ran

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