Texas Quotes - Page 20

• Your Texas is no different than my Texas.

  Pat Mora

  Different

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• I began to understand that all Texas is an eternal synthesis of past and present, superimposed one upon the other. It produces a feeling of being in two places at once.

  Mary Lasswell

  Past, Two, Feelings

  Mary Lasswell (1958). “I'll take Texas”

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• I literally paid my way through the University of Texas with my umpiring.

  Jim Evans

  Umpires, Way, University

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• After one year in the Texas League, the American League bought the rights to my contract. They optioned me back to the Texas League for the 1970 season.

  Jim Evans

  Rights, Years, League

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• I've got a lot of wonderfully talented, creative directors I've worked with in Texas, but the market we're in, they kind of have to write to that. I think we've done some cool, simple spots. I was very comfortable in Texas, and getting ready to push out into national stuff, try to get to that national-type creative, and then I got sidetracked with this stuff.

  Jackie Earle Haley

  Writing, Thinking, Simple

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. March 4, 2009.

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• I don't think people are going to come down to Texas and see every person riding in a candy car or every person sipping syrup. But, for the most part, people got a lot of the stuff right, talking about the screwed music scene.

  Chamillionaire

  Thinking, Talking, Car

  Interview with Tom Breihan, pitchfork.com. November 27, 2005.

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• Growing up in the shadow of Johnson Space Center and moving to Texas to welcome our last moon mission home, I wanted to be an astronaut. Combined with my love for Navy history and World War II flight ops, and unsatisfying degrees in college and law school, I joined the Navy and became a naval aviator.

  Pete Olson

  Growing Up, War, Moving

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• If we can make Washington more like Texas, the whole country will be a winner.

  John Cornyn

  Country, Winner, Whole

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• I have never known anyone from Texas, no matter how far they go or what they do, who isn't proud of being from Texas.

  Van Cliburn

  Proud, Matter, Known

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• A man from Iowa or Illinois will say 'I'm from the Middle West'..a Georgian or a Mississipian may admit to being merely a Southerner...but no Texan, given the opportunity, ever said otherwise than 'I'm from Texas'.

  J. Frank Dobie

  Opportunity, Men, Illinois

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• I was always proud about being from Texas and, you know, maybe that was part of fearlessness. I love the fact that Texas is so big, but you don't feel small because of that.

  Sissy Spacek

  Proud, Facts, Bigs

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• Texas is my mind's country, that place I most want to understand and record and preserve. Four generations of my people sleep in its soil; I have children there, and a grandson; the dead past and the living future tie me to it.

  Larry L. King

  Country, Children, Sleep

  Larry L. King (1985). “Warning, Writer at Work: The Best Collectibles of Larry L. King”, p.164, TCU Press

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• North Texas is by far the most serious minded jazz program I have encountered.

  Dave Liebman

  Serious, Jazz, Program

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• Without doubt, the foremost band for decades has been the One O'Clock Lab Band at the University of North Texas. Through its many incarnations and under various leaders, they have demonstrated the highest qualities of musicianship imaginable, plus a willingness to balance their big band tradition with creative exploration. Astounding ensemble work, insightful interpretations of the arrangements, imaginative writing, and above all, a loving attention to musicality . . . these people play beautifully.

  Gary Burton

  Writing, Play, People

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• Once again, in the fine tradition of North Texas Lab Bands, this is truly a superb band. Under the artful leadership of Neil Slater, these great musicians have managed to combine small group "openness" with the swinging precision of a classic big band. Very enjoyable!

  Michael Brecker

  Musician, Groups, Band

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• I don't really watch movies at all. I don't even think I could name one. Maybe Texas Chainsaw Massacre? I think I've seen that, but I definitely don't have a favorite.

  Jermell Charlo

  Thinking, Names, Watches

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• A lot of actors talk about how much they love the people they work with, and that's true, to a certain extent, but Texas and I had a very strong bond, right from the beginning. I think Texas made a mental decision to just be on my side, 110%.

  Tania Raymonde

  Strong, Thinking, People

  Source: collider.com

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• I have a good friend who's a Texas girl; Texas girls are a whole different breed.

  John Cusack

  Girl, Good Friend, Different

  "Being John Cusack". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. November 23, 2009.

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• Roy, the guy I play in 'The Grifters,' is a guy who had a very bleak life. His mother had him at 13, and then when she was 17 or 18 and he was 4 or 5, they were trapped in a small Texas town somewhere, and she was ready to do anything to get out.

  John Cusack

  Mother, Play, Guy

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• If Detroit was a watershed concert for me, traveling with Willie Nelson through Texas and Louisiana was a milestone of a different sort.

  Charley Pride

  Different, Louisiana, Detroit

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• My dialogue coach said to do a Texas accent, you lean on the next word, and that was the clue to me.

  Michael Caine

  Next, Clue, Accents

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• Texas is a hotbed of insanely good bands and musicians.

  Henry Rollins

  Musician, Band, Good Bands

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• Texas: 32 electoral votes, another of the so-called big enchiladas or if not an enchilada at least a huge taco.

  Dan Rather

  Enchiladas, Tacos, Vote

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• My grandpa was a cowboy. He roped cattle out in Texas and Arizona. Growing up, I'd see him maybe once a year and he'd always get me on a horse at some point. But each time I'd have to learn again.

  Austin Butler

  Horse, Growing Up, Cowboy

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• After I found out that I was playing music and that I'd have to learn how to read and write music, I started doing that about two years later. Finally, I said, "Oh, that means what I really want to do is to be a composer." But when I was coming up in Texas, there was segregation. There was no schools to go to. I taught myself how to read and how to start writing.

  Ornette Coleman

  Writing, School, Mean

  Interview with Michael Jarrett, www2.york.psu.edu. November 8, 1987.

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