Southern Quotes - Page 14

• You know, so many people say TV makes you stupid. But it had the complete opposite affect on me. It kept me from having a really bad Southern accent.

  DJ Qualls

  Stupid, Opposites, People

  "A Conversation With Dj Qualls". Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. April 4, 2003.

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• 'Madea' is a Southern term. It's short for 'mother dear.' So there are a lot of Madeas out there.

  Tyler Perry

  Mother, Term, Dear

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• Driving through much of the southern part of the U.S. reminds me of where I grew up in Canada. The trees, homes, sense of community... I love the South.

  Laurie Holden

  Home, Community, Tree

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

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• On 'Justified,' we're driving all around Southern California trying to find a location that we can call Kentucky.

  Timothy Olyphant

  Kentucky, California, Trying

  "Timothy Olyphant: 'Justified' In Laying Down The Law". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. March 28, 2011.

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• I'm a Southern lady that almost never leaves the house without makeup on.

  Ginnifer Goodwin

  Makeup, House, Without Makeup

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Southern lawyers don't read novels much.

  Harper Lee

  Lawyer, Novel

  "The Interrogation of ‘Mockingbird’ Author Harper Lee (Guest Blog)". www.thewrap.com. July 16, 2014.

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• If you start parsing the cause-and-effect chain backward through time, eventually you land in cosmology - does the story begin with the Big Bang or the out-of-nothing creation of the world by the word of a Southern Baptist god? And that question is even more fraught than any of the others. The stakes couldn't be any higher, because not it's not just a question of life and death, but also a question of life after death or eternal torture after death.

  Kyle Minor

  Land, Life And Death, Causes

  "To Rage Against Meaninglessness". Interview with Matt Bell, logger.believermag.com. February 6, 2014.

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• I'm Southern Baptist, not a meteorologist.

  Willard Scott

  Baptists, Meteorologists, Southern Baptist

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• I love that there's this tradition of being able to discuss the heaviest topics and the gnarliest stuff that goes down in people's lives in traditional Southern American music.

  Gillian Welch

  People, Able, Stuff

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• We have terrorists coming into the country both through our Northern and Southern borders.

  Tom Tancredo

  Country, Borders, Terrorist

  Interview with John Hawkins, rightwingnews.com. February 26, 2012.

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• I find standard American the hardest. It really fits in a different place in your mouth. Southern, I find the easiest. If you talk to a dialect coach and you get sort of technical, where an English person keeps their voice in their throat, a Southern person does the same, and it's got the same sort of music to talking.

  Juno Temple

  Talking, Dialect Coach, Voice

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• Currently, I bowl regional tournaments out of the PBA Southern Region.

  Joe Tex

  Regions, Bowls, Tournaments

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• Probably the first time I was a boss was when I was associate dean of the graduate school at the University of Southern California. I was in my early 30s.

  Ruth Simmons

  School, California, Boss

  "I Was Impossible, but Then I Saw How to Lead". Interview with Adam Bryant, www.nytimes.com. December 3, 2011.

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• Anything to do with the South resonates with me, because I'm Southern.

  Mary Steenburgen

  South

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

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• I'm originally from southern California, so I, like, say 'like', like, a lot. I've been trying to scrub any traces of Valley Girl from my speech since I moved to New York, but it's, like, totally way harder than anyone thinks, you know?

  Mara Wilson

  Girl, New York, Thinking

  "Mara Wilson: Hollywood child star turned New York storyteller". Interview with Katie Rogers, www.theguardian.com. September 18, 2013.

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• I think that it has to be a very humane approach to this issue, and we have to come up with solutions to it. But we also have to do something about the drugs that are coming across our southern border that are killing our kids... I think there are some people who want to leave this country and return to the country they came from, but obviously it requires a broader solution that that, and we all know that.

  John McCain

  Country, Kids, Thinking

  John McCain Slams Mitt Romney’s ‘Self-Deportation,’ Advocates ‘Humane Approach’ To Immigration" by Mollie Reilly, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 6, 2012.

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• I am a closet birdwatcher. I can identify Southern African species, but it irks me I can barely tell a jay from a blackbird in the U.K.

  Wilbur Smith

  Closets, Blackbirds, Species

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• Well, for me, I grew up very Southern Baptist, and I definitely lived in my bubble. You know, I lived in my bubble that was in my church.

  Jessica Simpson

  Church, Baptists, Grew Up

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• The Urban Literate Southern California Sub-Group of the Early Atomic Period has not yet produced a distinct body of folk music of its own.

  Sam Hinton

  California, Body, Groups

  "The Singer of Folk Songs and His Conscience" by Sam Hinton, Western Folklore, 14.3, July 1965.

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• If growing up is painful for the Southern Black girl, being aware of her displacement is the rust on the razor that threatens the throat. It is an unnecessary insult.

  Maya Angelou

  Girl, Growing Up, Black

  1969 I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, opening section.

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• There are a lot of girls Ive found attractive, but we could never date. If a girl can make me laugh, thats really attractive to me. I have a soft spot for southern girls who are sweet, like Taylor Swift!

  Spencer Boldman

  Girl, Sweet, Laughing

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• George W. Bush gave a commencement speech at Southern Methodist University this weekend. It was pretty inspirational. He said, 'As I like to tell the 'C' students, you too can be president.' Even George W. Bush has George W. Bush comedy material in his act.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Weekend, President, Speech

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• I'm from Southern California, so I feel much more comfortable with a golf club in my hand than I do a weapon.

  Bert Blyleven

  Golf, Hands, California

  "Answer Man: Bert Blyleven talks the Hall, swearing on air". Interview with David Brown, sports.yahoo.com. May 22, 2008.

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• Terry Southern is the illegitimate son of Mack Sennett and Edna Saint Vincent Millay.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Son, Saint, Mack

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• What makes the Southern Poverty Law Center particularly odious is its habit of taking legitimate conservatives and jumbling them with genuine hate groups (the Klan, Aryan Nation, skinheads, etc.), to make it appear that there's a logical relationship between say opposing affirmative action and lynching, or demands for an end to government services for illegal aliens and attacks on dark-skinned immigrants. The late novelist/philosopher Ayn Rand called this 'the broad-brush smear.'

  Don Feder

  Hate, Dark, Government

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