Tennessee Quotes - Page 4

• 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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• The difference between the smartest dog and the stupidest man - say a Tennessee Holy Roller - is really very small.

  H. L. Mencken

  Dog, Men, Differences

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.412, Knopf

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• I grew up in Tennessee where you either play football or you don't do anything at all. So I was a bit of loner, being interested in music.

  Justin Timberlake

  Football, Play, Loner

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Sign at a Tennessee highway: When this sign is under water, this road is impassable.

  Dave Barry

  God, Water, Stupidity

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• I placed a jar in Tennessee,
  And round it was, upon a hill.
  It made the slovenly wilderness
  Surround that hill.

  Wallace Stevens

  Art, Nature, Jars

  "Anecdote of the Jar" l. 1 (1923)

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• Tennessee Williams recognized that great theater begins with great talkers, and that great talkers obey two rules: they never sound like anyone else and they never say anything directly.

  Edmund White

  Writing, Two, Say Anything

  Edmund White, David Bergman (1995). “The Burning Library: Essays”, Vintage

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• There are a couple of different types of food I eat a lot. I was raised in the South, in Tennessee, so I’m going to go with comfort food, soul food. I would probably start with collard greens and candied baby carrots and then have some biscuits and white gravy - and for dessert, probably blackberry cobbler.

  Megan Fox

  Baby, Couple, White

  Interview with Zach Galifianakis, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 2, 2010.

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• You invest into the future, and that's how young people become human in best sense of it - through the great experience of listening a Müller symphony or to see a great play by Tennessee Williams, experience something in a ballet, in a film.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Play, Symphony, People

  "Dancer-actor Mikhail Baryshnikov". "The Tavis Smiley Show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. April 28, 2014.

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• Right after graduation, I married Samuel Fisher Babbitt, an academic administrator. I spent the next ten years in Connecticut, Tennessee, and Washington, D.C., raising our children, Christopher, Tom, and Lucy.

  Natalie Babbitt

  Children, Years, Next

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• The essence of science is that it is always willing to abandon a given idea, however fundamental it may seem to be, for a better one; the essence of theology is that it holds its truths to be eternal and immutable. To be sure, theology is always yielding a little to the progress of knowledge, and only a Holy Roller in the mountains of Tennessee would dare to preach today what the popes preached in the Thirteenth Century, but this yielding is always done grudgingly, and thus lingers a good while behind the event.

  H. L. Mencken

  Science, Essence, Ideas

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.249, Knopf

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• I want to run for the Senate from Tennessee. Not now, but when I'm 50, when music dies down a little bit. I know lots of artists and actors have those delusions of grandeur, but ever since I was a kid, it's been of interest to me.

  Tim McGraw

  Running, Kids, Artist

  "The Clinton Of Country". Interview with Josh Tyrangiel, content.time.com. September 13, 2004.

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• I was a lusty kid who loved Tennessee Williams.

  St. Vincent

  Kids

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. July 12, 2007.

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• There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again.

  George W. Bush

  Funny, Stupid, Humorous

  "Political Gaffes to Spark Any Party". Interview with John Ydstie, www.npr.org. November 5, 2006.

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• Cause I'm carryin' your love with me
  From West Virginia down to Tennessee
  I'll be movin' with the good lord speed, carryin' your love with me
  It's my strength for holdin' on
  Every minute that I have to be gone
  I'll have everything I'll ever need
  Carryin' your love with me

  George Strait

  Country, Song, Virginia

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• There is, it appears, a conspiracy of scientists afoot. Their purpose is to break down religion, propagate immorality, and so reduce mankind to the level of brutes. They are the sworn and sinister agents of Beelzebub, who yearns to conquer the world, and has his eye especially upon Tennessee.]

  H. L. Mencken

  Eye, Science, Conquer The World

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• I play guitar, the ukulele and the piano. I grew up on a mountain in Tennessee and we had The Mountain Opry, where anyone could just get up on stage to perform. It was just about the soul and heart of music. My upbringing was less about being great and more about just doing what you love. It was always for joy.

  Rachel Boston

  Love, Heart, Guitar

  "5 Questions with Rachel Boston". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, www.etonline.com. April 19, 2013.

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• The education needs in Silicon Valley versus rural Iowa versus Tennessee are very different.

  Andy Ogle

  Education, Iowa, Different

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• Being a theater actor, I've done a lot of plays where I've seen someone else play the same role in another production. Especially with the classics: Shakespeare, Tennessee Williams.

  Jacki Weaver

  Play, Roles, Actors

  "Jacki Weaver, America’s Sweetheart". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 2, 2014.

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• All my ex's live in Texas, And Texas is the place I'd dearly love to be, But all my ex's live in Texas, Therefore I reside in Tennessee

  George Strait

  Texas, Exes

  Song: All My Ex's Live In Texas

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• Believe it or not, I was just given an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Tennessee.

  Dolly Parton

  Believe, Degrees, Given

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• My first job was singing on the Cas Walker radio show in Knoxville, Tennessee. I was about 10 years old and I thought it was big time.

  Dolly Parton

  Jobs, Years, Singing

  "Andy Warhol’s Interview Interview: Dolly Parton" by Andy Warhol, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 12, 2014.

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• My biggest extravagances are also investments. I have several houses in California, a house in Nashville, an office complex, and I bought the old home place in Tennessee. They are different places for me to write, but I can turn right around and sell them.

  Dolly Parton

  Home, Writing, Nashville

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• I loved the old government in 1861. I loved the old Constitution yet. I think it is the best government in the world, if administered as it was before the war. I do not hate it; I am opposing now only the radical revolutionists who are trying to destroy it. I believe that party to be composed, as I know it is in Tennessee, of the worst men on Gods earth - men who would not hesitate at no crime, and who have only one object in view - to enrich themselves.

  Nathan Bedford Forrest

  Hate, War, Party

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• I had been a kind of natural mystic my whole life, growing up there in Tennessee next to the river. Somehow, that was important for my consciousness. I still don't study [mysticism]. I just wait for experiences.

  Coleman Barks

  Growing Up, Rivers, Waiting

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• When I was with the serpent-handlers in Tennessee, it was the most bizarre method of worship I could think of. Yet when you sit with these people, you can kind of see how it makes sense.

  A. J. Jacobs

  Thinking, People, Kind

  Interview with Jason Albert, www.avclub.com. November 9, 2007.

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