Tennessee Quotes - Page 5

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

  Andy Ogle

  Education, Iowa, Different

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• My problem with Obama is that he's not a new paradigm; he's an old paradigm. A new paradigm would be somebody like Harold Ford [former Democratic Congressman from Tennessee] or Michael Steele [former Republican Lieutenant Governor of Maryland], no relation, both of whom present themselves as individuals, and don't seem to wear a mask. They don't 'bargain;' they don't 'challenge.' So, I see them as fresh, and as evidence of what I hope will be a new trend.

  Shelby Steele

  Challenges, Would Be, Trends

  "Shelby Steele: The Why Obama Can’t Win Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, www.kamwilliams.com. February 27, 2008.

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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 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 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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• When I think about singing, and music, I think about how the people who live on the East Tennessee side have more of a curve or yodel to their voices, and then you think about the curve of mountains.

  Valerie June

  Thinking, Curves, Voice

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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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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• 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'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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• I love Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, Flannery O'Connor. I read a lot of American writers.

  Kiran Desai

  Truman, American Writer

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• I'm an American playwright. Tennessee Williams got in all our DNA.

  John Guare

  Dna, Playwright

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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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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• 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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• Tennessee Williams, one of my favorite playwrights, [lived] down there. You always heard about the Keys and how amazing they are and, well, it's like a highway with some bars on it.

  John Leguizamo

  Keys, Bars, My Favorite

  Interview with Haley Weiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 31, 2016.

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• I am about helping each and every student athlete that selects to wear the orange, you know, be successful at Tennessee individually and as a team. That type of record is certainly not anything that I have aspirations to reach.

  Pat Summitt

  Team, Athlete, Successful

  Source: www.cyinterview.com

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• I want to keep coaching as long as I can. I love teaching and working with student athletes and I love being at the University of Tennessee.

  Pat Summitt

  Teaching, Athlete, Love Is

  Source: www.cyinterview.com

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• In the case of Alex Haley, Haley's material is located at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, primarily. But there are a whole series of elaborate steps that one has to - has to encounter in order to even begin to do research. There's an attorney. If you want to photocopy material from that archive, you have to get permission from the attorney beforehand.

  Manning Marable

  Order, Encounters, Archives

  Source: historynewsnetwork.org

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• Eugene O'Neil created an American theater, and Tennessee Williams taught it how to sing.

  John Guare

  Taught, Theater

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• [Doctor Cukrowicz] was basically a role where you have two diva actresses - Maggie Smith and Natasha Richardson - and my role was to say, "And then what happened? Tell me more." But I wanted to do it was because a) it was Tennessee Williams, a great writer, and b) it was Richard Eyre, an amazing director. And to work with those two amazing women!

  Rob Lowe

  Two, Doctors, Roles

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When I was elected, I was the youngest member of the Tennessee congressional delegation; now, I'm one of the oldest. In fact, I have members of my staff who weren't even born when I took office. That tells me it's time for a new chapter.

  Bart Gordon

  Office, Facts, Staff

  "Tennessee Rep. Bart Gordon (D) To Retire". www.realclearpolitics.com. December 14, 2009.

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