Tennessee Quotes - Page 5

• I don't even want to call it God. I just want to call it connecting with something that's greater than I am. So that's the biggest thing from Tennessee - the spirit.

  Valerie June

  Want, Spirit, Greater

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• There are so many different versions of "Tennessee Waltz" and they're all so good.

  Valerie June

  Different, Waltz, Versions

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I was a lusty kid who loved Tennessee Williams. Sexy plays. [For musicians] there are so many that it's hard just to say one. Certain things, like the first time you hear A Love Supreme, you're floored. It takes whatever you were listening to and blows a hole in it.

  Annie E. Clark

  Sexy, Kids, Blow

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'm a Tennessee boy. I grew up in East Tennessee most of my life, then came up to Philly to go to college and fell in love with this city, and particularly, my neighborhood on the north side of Philadelphia.

  Shane Claiborne

  Boys, College, Cities

  Source: medium.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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• 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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• The greatest thing the Democrats have ever done for me was to defeat me for the governor of Tennessee.

  Roy Acuff

  Done, Defeat, Democrat

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

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• Doing a thing call the Hillbilly Rock, some say it came from Elvis down in Tennessee.

  Marty Stuart

  Rocks, Hillbilly

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• I've got a reason to believe we all be received in Graceland, Graceland, Memphis Tennessee.

  Paul Simon

  Believe, Memphis, Reason

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• The way he shook his hips up there on that stage, but before that fateful day when he left Tennessee all of them were calling him the King.

  Tim McGraw

  Kings, Calling, Way

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• If they don't have the Grand Ole Opry, like they do in Tennessee, just send me to hell or New York City, it would be about the same to me.

  Hank Williams, Jr.

  New York, Cities, Evil

  FaceBook post by Hank Williams Jr. from Dec 15, 2011

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• From my first dunk at 14 years old to my second NCAA Championship at the University of Tennessee, my intense training with my dad was always to credit.

  Candace Parker

  Dad, Years, Intense Training

  "Thanks, Dad, for Believing in Me Before I Did" by Candace Parker, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 16, 2011.

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• I grew up in rural Tennessee. There were no bookstores in the town, but the school had a little library and the town had a little library, each with a patient and enthusiastic librarian, and I raced into both as if they were doorways to another world.

  Michael Sims

  School, Library, Bookstores

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• There is an event once a year that I'm able to sing at, through 'Passions,' in Tennessee. That's always fun. We perform at the Wild Horse Saloon.

  Lindsay Hartley

  Horse, Fun, Passion

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• It's just that the characters are speaking their mind. As opposed to it just being an expression, they're actually saying what's on their mind, and that's something that Tennessee Williams is really famous for. Shakespeare does that and Tennessee Williams does that. You crave that, when you're an actor, for sure.

  Bryce Dallas Howard

  Character, Expression, Mind

  Source: collider.com

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• I learned my job from English dramatists. Tennessee Williams was no good for me, New York stuff was no good to me.

  William Monahan

  Jobs, New York, Stuff

  Source: collider.com

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• If you want to live in Tennessee, God bless you, I wish for you a long life and starry evenings. But that is not where I want to live my life. I want to live my life in Carthage, in Athens. I want to live my life in Rome. I want to live my life in the center of the world. I want to live my life in Los Angeles.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Rome, Long, Wish

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I've chronicled the experience of the mother of a transgender child who got attacked by the Ku Klux Klan in Tennessee, and that of a transgender woman who was asked to deliver a sermon at her Montana church and got a standing ovation from her congregation. The idea that Christianity is a blanket term that encompasses both of those attitudes seems ludicrous to me.

  Andrew Solomon

  Mother, Children, Attitude

  Source: andrewsolomon.com

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• I grew up down in the hills of Virginia. I can be in Kentucky in 20 minutes, Tennessee in 20 minutes or in the state of West Virginia in 20 minutes. And it's down in the Appalachian Mountains, down there. And it's sort of a poorer country. Most of the livelihood is coal mining and logging, working in the woods and things like that. Most people has a hard life down that way.

  Ralph Stanley

  Country, Kentucky, Virginia

  Source: www.npr.org

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• My grandfather on my mother's side was a professor of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; my other grandfather was a lawyer, and one time Speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives.

  Kenneth G. Wilson

  Mother, Technology, Engineering

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• Miley is always on, she’s always funny, she’s always writing songs, she’s always making music. The parallel of the film is like Miley says, going back to her home, going back to her roots. Getting back to Tennessee was art imitating life imitating art.

  Billy Ray Cyrus

  Song, Art, Home

  "Hannah Montana: The Movie - Billy Ray Cyrus interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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