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  • They say that Virginia is the mother of Texas. We never knew who the father was, but we kinda suspected Tennessee.

    Mother   Father   Texas  
  • I could be on 52nd and Third in Manhattan up and ask a strange for directions and they will help you, that's a rural heart. Your car breaks down in the middle of Iowa or somewhere, or Tennessee where I'm from, people want to help each other. Given each opportunity, you see how people come together.

  • In Tennessee where I grew up, there were animals, farms, wagons, mules.

  • Tennessee's a hillbilly dumping ground, and Georgia's a lousy state too.

  • If the Southeast represents the new battlefield in the war on meth, then Tennessee clearly is at ground zero.

    Zero   War   Tennessee  
  • Teenage girls, please don’t worry about being super popular in high school, or being the best actress in high school, or the best athlete. Not only do people not care about any of that the second you graduate, but when you get older, if you reference your successes in high school too much, it actually makes you look kind of pitiful, like some babbling old Tennessee Williams character with nothing else going on in her current life. What I’ve noticed is that almost no one who was a big star in high school is also big star later in life. For us overlooked kids, it’s so wonderfully fair.

    Mindy Kaling (2011). “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)”, p.31, Three Rivers Press
  • Alabama - they were the masters of that. They could come out with 'Mountain Music' or 'Tennessee River' and then turn around and come out with 'Feels So Right.' Go out and have fun and be those guys that like to party, then turn around and make every woman in America want Randy Owen.

    Fun   Party   Rivers  
  • Where the Tennessee River, like a silver snake, winds her way through the clay hills of Alabama, sits high on these hills, my home town, Florence.

    Home   Wind   Snakes  
    William Christopher Handy (1947). “Father of the Blues: An Autobiography of W. C. Handy”
  • If I had my choice in life I would have had the gifts of Tennessee Williams or Eugene O'Neill. Unfortunately my gifts lie in comedy and so comedy comes fairly easy to me and I occasionally have an idea for a very serious piece and I do it, but the ideas don't come that readily to me.

    Lying   Ideas   Choices  
    Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 27, 2001.
  • I’m really looking forward to embracing some of the great traditions at the University of Tennessee, for instance the Vol Walk, running through the T, singing Rocky Top all night long after we beat Florida next year. It will be a blast

    Running   Night   Years  
  • 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

    Texas   Tennessee   Exes  
    Song: All My Ex's Live In Texas
  • 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.

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

    Horse   Fun   Passion  
  • Today the people from my State of Tennessee would listen to this debate, or even talk about a reference to God on our money or in the Halls of Congress or in our Pledge and say, please, let common sense and logic win the day and prevail versus legal mumbo jumbo.

    Money   Winning   People  
  • I was one of the first three black students to go to an all-white school in Tennessee.

    School   White   Black  
  • But I've got a lot of ideas, I bought me a ranch in Florida and I still have my farm in Ashland City, Tennessee so I'm gonna spend a little time at each one of those places and you'll probably hear some more songs out of me.

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

    Source: collider.com
  • I'm from Middlesboro, Ky., a little town on the Tennessee and Virginia border.

  • I chose Tennessee because I thought theyd give me an opportunity to play.

  • My elementary school is still there [in Luttrell, Tennessee]. I drop by my high school. It's a small community. I say this every night before I do the song 'The Boys of Fall' in the show - I'm really happy about where I grew up and how I grew up.

    Song   Fall   School  
    Source: www.chicagotribune.com
  • 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.

    Source: collider.com
  • I met my wife and, for the next ten years, we did no films at all. She did the first movie and then I did several after. My first movie was written by Tennessee Williams and directed by [Elia] Kazan and was called Baby Doll.

    Baby   Years   Wife  
    "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • All my Ex's live in Texas, and that's why I hang my hat in Tennessee.

    Song: All My Ex's Live In Texas, Album: Ocean Front Property
  • I took guitar a while back, and my heart wasn't in it at the time, but I'm ready to try it again. I sing in the car, at home - it's a huge part of my life, especially since I'm from Tennessee.

    Home   Heart   Guitar  
  • The tricky or boastful gods of ancient myths and primitive folk tales are characters of the same kind that turn up in Faulkner or Tennessee Williams.

    Northrop Frye, Germaine Warkentin (2006). “Educated Imagination and Other Writings on Critical Theory, 1933-1962”, p.449, University of Toronto Press
  • We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the time that I lived there so successfully disguised to myself as a child.

    Summer   Children   June  
    James Agee (2008). “A Death in the Family”, p.12, Penguin
  • When I was in Nashville, Tennessee in 1970 with Derek and the Dominoes, I went into this shop and they had a rack of Strats and Teles - all going for $100.00 each. I bought a handfull and made Blackie out of the body from one, the neck from another, and so on

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

    Source: www.guernicamag.com
  • I'm from Texas. I hitchhiked to Tennessee when I was 19 years old, and it is really beautiful in Tennessee.

    Beautiful   Texas   Years  
  • 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.

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