Tennessee Quotes - Page 3

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

  Elia Kazan

  Becoming, Said, Shows

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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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• 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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• 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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• I'm from Texas. I hitchhiked to Tennessee when I was 19 years old, and it is really beautiful in Tennessee.

  Steve Earle

  Beautiful, Texas, Years

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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'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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• I grew up in east Tennessee, and everybody knew everybody's business.

  Kenny Chesney

  East, Grew Up, East Tennessee

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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 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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• When I was young, I wanted to be a dramatic writer, a writer of tragedy. Nothing would've pleased me more than if I could have written like Eugene O'Neil or Tennessee Williams.

  Woody Allen

  Tragedy, Dramatic, Young

  Source: movieweb.com

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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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• You just witnessed something I've never seen in my entire life. They just called that team (Tennessee) the winner. They said whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, (whistles) come back here. Then they called us the winner. I'm a tell you right now as an experience, dammit, I'm going to enjoy that one as much as I hate to admit it.

  Les Miles

  Hate, Team, Memorable

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• I grew up in Tennessee, and if you didn't play football, you were a sissy. I got slurs all the time because I was in music and art...I was an outcast in a lot of ways...but everything that you get picked on for or you feel makes you weird is essentially what's going to make you sexy as an adult.

  Justin Timberlake

  Sexy, Football, Bullying

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• The nation is sick; trouble is in the land, confusion all around...But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars. And I see God working in this period of the twentieth century. Something is happening in our world. The masses of people are rising up. And wherever they are assembled today, whether they are in Johannesburg, South Africa; Nairobi, Kenya; Accra, Ghana; New York City; Atlanta, Georgia; Jackson, Mississippi; or Memphis, Tennessee, the cry is always the same: 'We want to be free.'

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  New York, Stars, Dark

  I've Been to the Mountaintop, delivered 3 April 1968, Mason Temple (Church of God in Christ Headquarters), Memphis, Tennessee

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• The grandmother didn't want to go to Florida. She wanted to visit some of her connections in east Tennessee and she was seizing at every chance to change Bailey's mind. Bailey was the son she liver with, her only boy.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Change, Son, Grandmother

  Flannery O'Connor (1993). “"A Good Man is Hard to Find"”, p.31, Rutgers University Press

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• Look at Picasso. O’Neill. Tennessee Williams. Capote. Were these shiny happy people spreading sunshine? No. Only the greatest of personal demons can force you to do powerful work.

  Marisha Pessl

  Powerful, Sunshine, People

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• I cut the ribbon in Paris, and everyone in Paris speaks French — maybe you knew that. But I'm from Tennessee, and Tennessee girls don't speak French. So suddenly I'm stuck onstage with Minnie and Mickey and everyone is yelling at me in French — I guess they're telling me to get off the stage, but I didn't know what they were saying at the time, so I start dancing with Minnie and Mickey like on the show and finally my aunt comes and gets me off.

  Miley Cyrus

  Girl, Cutting, Aunt

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

  Flannery O'Connor

  Georgia, Hillbilly, States

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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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• 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 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 could be on 52nd and Third in Manhattan up and ask a strange for directions and they will help you, that's a rural heart. Your car breaks down in the middle of Iowa or somewhere, or Tennessee where I'm from, people want to help each other. Given each opportunity, you see how people come together.

  Rodney Atkins

  Heart, Opportunity, Iowa

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