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In Tennessee where I grew up, there were animals, farms, wagons, mules. -- Tina Turner
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
When you think about it, what other playwrights are there besides O'Neill, Tennessee and me? -- Mae West
Today the most outlaw thing you can possibly do in Nashville, Tennessee, is play country music. -- Marty Stuart
They say that Virginia is the mother of Texas. We never knew who the father was, but we kinda suspected Tennessee. -- Tex Ritter
Tennessee is a very country-type state. Maybe I can practice on some type of country-western dance where they'll know what I'm doing. -- Chad Ochocinco
Part of it is living in Tennessee. I'm so out of the loop. And as a person, I'm out of the loop. I'm oblivious by nature. -- Ann Patchett
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
The global environment crisis is, as we say in Tennessee, real as rain, and I cannot stand the thought of leaving my children with a degraded earth and a diminished future. -- Al Gore
I feel one of the most significant honors a player can have in his sport is to have his number retired. Certainly for me to have that at Tennessee, it's with great pride. -- Peyton Manning
I have a bit of an obsession with the 1950's and all those actors from Montgomery Clift to James Dean and Anthony Perkins. Just that whole era of Tennessee Williams to Elia Kazan. -- Sebastian Stan
Angels in America' - which is composed of two three-hour plays, 'Millennium Approaches' and 'Perestroika' - proved to be a watershed drama, the most lyrical and ambitious augury of an era since Tennessee Williams's 'The Glass Menagerie. -- John Lahr
My personal favorite remains Tiger Stadium, Baton Rouge, first home game after Katrina vs. Tennessee on a Monday night. Getting goose bumps typing about it. It was so loud and emotional that I think everyone was exhausted by the second half. -- Pat Forde
The Civil War was fought in 10,000 places, from Valverde, New Mexico, and Tullahoma, Tennessee, to St. Albans, Vermont, and Fernandina on the Florida coast. More than 3 million Americans fought in it, and over 600,000 men, 2 percent of the population, died in it. -- Bruce Catton
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. -- Mel Tillis
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
I've got high standards when it comes to boys. As my dad says, all girls should! I'm from the South - Tennessee, to be exact - and down there, we're all about southern hospitality. I know that if I like a guy, he better be nice, and above all, my dad has to approve of him! -- Miley Cyrus
I grew up in east Tennessee, and everybody knew everybody's business. -- Kenny Chesney
I chose Tennessee because I thought they'd give me an opportunity to play. -- Jamal Lewis
I love Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, Flannery O'Connor. I read a lot of American writers. -- Kiran Desai
I come from this really small town near Nashville, Tennessee, where everything was la-di-da and normal. -- Miley Cyrus
I was one of the first three black students to go to an all-white school in Tennessee. -- Gil Scott-Heron
Believe it or not, I was just given an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Tennessee. -- Dolly Parton
We in Tennessee know that low taxes, less government, and less spending are the ways to grow our economy. -- Marsha Blackburn
I love Tennessee, but they don't have the pine trees and the sandy soil and the black water that I grew up around. -- Josh Turner
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. -- James Agee
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
Dolly Parton made me chicken and dumplings. That Tennessee woman can burn some pots! And we know that I am not necessarily shy to a fork! -- Queen Latifah
I think, being from east Tennessee, you're kinda born with a little lonesome in your soul, in your blood. You know you've got that Appalachian soul. -- Ashley Monroe
I can't control what other people do or say. I can only control the one vote I've been bestowed upon by the people in the Tennessee Valley. -- Mo Brooks
I used to play - when I first started trying to be professional, I disk jockey from 1949 to 1955 in Memphis, Tennessee, and I was quite popular there as a disk jockey. -- B. B. King
One of the central memories of my childhood is of hunting - not well; I am a terrible shot - quail and dove and grouse on a farm on the Tennessee River. -- Jon Meacham
I grew up hiking and horseback riding in Tennessee, so I love being outside. I will joyfully run 12 miles, but I'm not very good at boot camps. When they start yelling, I start laughing. -- Rachel Boston
I have been to Graceland a hundred times. Every kid in middle Tennessee has this night where it hits midnight, and they are like, 'Let's go to Graceland!' It's a rite of passage. I did it. -- DJ Qualls
I definitely used to lie about my age. I'm from Tennessee and everyone would vacation in Destin, Florida, where there are lots of cute guys. I would go with my older sister and lie about my age to them. -- Lucy Hale
After college, I went to Alley Theatre in Houston to work in their apprentice actor program. I thought I was gonna get discovered. It didn't happen. I moved back to Germantown, Tennessee, outside of Memphis, and taught at my old high school. -- Chris Parnell
My biggest extravagances are also investments. I have several houses in California, a house in Nashville, an office complex, and I bought the old home place in Tennessee. They are different places for me to write, but I can turn right around and sell them. -- Dolly Parton
I had someone correct my grammar once on a blind date, and within the first 10 minutes the date was over. You just don't correct somebody's grammar. That's just not okay. I'm from Tennessee, so I probably say everything wrong. I might have said 'ain't,' or something like that. -- Reese Witherspoon
I saw a sign on the side of the road in Tennessee once that said 'dirt for sale'... what a great country we live in. DIRT for sale. How would you like to get inside that guys mind and look around for a hour? That guy sees opportunity at every glance, doesn't he? -- Bill Hicks
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. -- Woody Allen
I was a few miles south of Louisville when I planned my journey. I spread out my map under a tree and made up my mind to go through Kentucky, Tennessee, and Georgia to Florida, thence to Cuba, thence to some part of South America; but it will be only a hasty walk. I am thankful, however, for so much. -- John Muir
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
You've probably heard the term, 'red flag warning.' That means there are extreme conditions. Low humidity, high temperatures. The fuels are extremely dry and volatile. We classify those in East Tennessee as 'fire days' so if your fire class day is a 1, it's relatively low. A class 5 day would be an extremely high danger day. A day like Sunday would be a 4 or a 5. -- Bruce Miller
I was a lusty kid who loved Tennessee Williams. -- St. Vincent
Tonight we water our horses in the Tennessee River. -- Albert Sidney Johnston
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I'm an American playwright. Tennessee Williams got in all our DNA. -- John Guare
Pabst Blue Ribbon. I'm from Johnson City, Tennessee. I gotta go Pabst. -- Matt Czuchry
I said to Tennessee, this thing is becoming the Marlon Brando show. -- Elia Kazan
I knew the whistle of each of the river boats on the Tennessee. -- William Christopher Handy
I chose Tennessee because I thought theyd give me an opportunity to play. -- Jamal Lewis
I'm from Middlesboro, Ky., a little town on the Tennessee and Virginia border. -- Lee Majors
Eugene O'Neil created an American theater, and Tennessee Williams taught it how to sing. -- John Guare
When homosexuals were repressed, you got Tennessee Williams. Today's tolerance got you Hilton Perez. -- Lenny Bruce
I love Tennessee Williams pieces; they are so poetic and I love period pieces. -- Richard Hatch
There are so many different versions of "Tennessee Waltz" and they're all so good. -- Valerie June
The education needs in Silicon Valley versus rural Iowa versus Tennessee are very different. -- Andy Ogle
I've got a reason to believe we all be received in Graceland, Graceland, Memphis Tennessee. -- Paul Simon
Sign at a Tennessee highway: When this sign is under water, this road is impassable. -- Dave Barry
All my Ex's live in Texas, and that's why I hang my hat in Tennessee. -- George Strait
Doing a thing call the Hillbilly Rock, some say it came from Elvis down in Tennessee. -- Marty Stuart
Tennessee Williams knew about the South, but he would clean it up and lie about it. -- Paul Mooney
Tennessee helps me open up. I'm much more vulnerable there, more willing to talk about anything. -- Dan Fogelberg
In Washington I'm thought of as a conservative, but in Tennessee I'm thought of as a Bolshevik. -- Howard Baker
And, I'd never done Tennessee Williams, and I had done Broadway musicals, so it was a challenge. -- Andrea Martin
Mississippi begins in a lobby of a Memphis, Tennessee hotel and extends south to the Gulf of Mexico -- William Faulkner
Let me tell about Tennessee. If your car breaks down in Tennessee, you have just moved to Tennessee. -- J. B. Smoove
Both teams are making mistakes. Florida's making these itsy-bitsy little ones, and Tennessee is making huge, gigantic mistakes. -- Gary Danielson
Tennessee Williams was a gifted talker with a beautiful accent and we had lots of things in common. -- Gloria Swanson
When I first moved to New York, I was still returning to Tennessee every few months to perform. -- Valerie June
I'm from around Tennessee. I ran away when I was 12 years old and I ain't never looked back. -- Denzel Washington
I'm from Tennessee. My mom lives in Nashville. I'm born and bred country. That's all I listen to. -- Lucy Hale
The thing you can count on in life is that Tennessee will always be scorching hot in August. -- Ann Patchett
The greatest thing the Democrats have ever done for me was to defeat me for the governor of Tennessee. -- Roy Acuff
I'm from Texas. I hitchhiked to Tennessee when I was 19 years old, and it is really beautiful in Tennessee. -- Steve Earle
If the Southeast represents the new battlefield in the war on meth, then Tennessee clearly is at ground zero. -- Phil Bredesen
There's no American playwright after 1945 who wasn't profoundly affected - who didn't have their DNA changed by Tennessee Williams. -- John Guare
Andrew Johnson was a Southerner generally who proclaimed that his native state of Tennessee was a country for white men. -- Stephen Ambrose
In America, Blackberry Farm in Tennessee is one of the most amazing hotels I've had the privilege of staying at. -- Gail Simmons
Tennessee Williams is an incredible writer for women because, in many ways, his women characters are him. He writes so passionately. -- Laila Robins
The difference between the smartest dog and the stupidest man - say a Tennessee Holy Roller - is really very small. -- H. L. Mencken
I placed a jar in Tennessee, And round it was, upon a hill. It made the slovenly wilderness Surround that hill. -- Wallace Stevens
I learned my job from English dramatists. Tennessee Williams was no good for me, New York stuff was no good to me. -- William Monahan
Savannah is a . . . lovely pastel dream of tight cobbled streets. . . . There are legendary scenes . . . to rival any dreamed up by Tennessee Williams. -- Rosemary Daniell
I grew up in Tennessee. We didn't know what Louis Vuitton was. I had to order all my prom outfits out of catalogs. -- Reese Witherspoon
I am very indebted to southern writers and not just Flannery O'Connor. Also Harry Crews, Larry Brown, Tennessee Williams, Barry Hannah and William Gay. -- Donald Ray Pollock
When I was governor, I was looking for a way to unify our state. I realized music is about the only thing that unifies Tennessee. -- Lamar Alexander
Tennessee will not furnish a single man for coercion, but fifty thousand, if necessary, for the defense of our rights, or those of our Southern brethren. -- Isham G. Harris
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
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. -- William Christopher Handy
I also grew up on a farm in east Tennessee, so my roots are just naturally super southern, so I've always had that southern country lifestyle. -- Kelsea Ballerini
Since the turn of the 20th century, members of the Jewish community in Upper East Tennessee and Southwest Virginia have been meeting together to celebrate and worship. -- Bill Jenkins
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
Since the turn of the 20th century, members of the Jewish community in Upper East Tennessee and Southwest Virginia have been meeting together to celebrate and worship. -- Bill Jenkins
Look at Picasso. O'Neill. Tennessee Williams. Capote. Were these shiny happy people spreading sunshine? No. Only the greatest of personal demons can force you to do powerful work. -- Marisha Pessl
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
I grew up in Tennessee where you either play football or you don't do anything at all. So I was a bit of loner, being interested in music. -- Justin Timberlake
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
Tennessee Williams was so adept at portraying characters who are both fallible and vulnerable. Women were a huge influence in his life, his mother and sister in particular. -- Kim Cattrall
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
We have in Tennessee a number of wonderful faith-based clinics to serve the uninsured. It is an important principle with them that everyone pays something as they are able. -- Phil Bredesen
Tennessee Williams recognized that great theater begins with great talkers, and that great talkers obey two rules: they never sound like anyone else and they never say anything directly. -- Edmund White
I was raised on a farm in East Tennessee, and my first concert was Britney Spears. It's my job as a country music artist to be honest about that. -- Kelsea Ballerini
I'm very fond of Tennessee Williams' plays, and when my husband and I went to New Orleans in the late 1970s, we saw 'A Street Car Named Desire.' -- Ruth Rendell
A lot of people don't know that my background is completely classical. For a while there, I was all about Moliere and the Greeks and Brecht and Tennessee Williams. -- Katy Mixon
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.
Right after graduation, I married Samuel Fisher Babbitt, an academic administrator. I spent the next ten years in Connecticut, Tennessee, and Washington, D.C., raising our children, Christopher, Tom, and Lucy. -- Natalie Babbitt
American naturalism is what my indulgent actor side loves: a bit of Tennessee Williams, a bit of Clifford Odets, August Wilson - I would just love to tackle some of that. -- Emilia Clarke
When I was young, I wanted to be a dramatic writer, a writer of tragedy. Nothing would've pleased me more than if I could have written like Eugene O'Neil or Tennessee Williams. -- Woody Allen
What you need for breakfast, they say in East Tennessee, is a jug of good corn liquor, a thick steak and a hound dog. Then you feed the steak to the dog. -- Charles Kuralt
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
I'm a veteran. If I go into the V.A. hospital in Tennessee, I want to know that the procedures they're doing to me are being done properly. That is not unreasonable. -- Phil Roe
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
Shame about how we're gonna die here, though. I mean, seriously. An Arab and a half-Jew enter a store in Tennessee. It's the beginning of a joke, and the punch line is "sodomy''. -- John Green
That's why Tennessee Williams was a great writer. Poetically, dramatically, it was fantastic stuff. And with the landscape, the losers in life populating it. His short stories have got rhythm, something musical about them. -- Ciaran Hinds
Living here in southern California, I'll miss hearing Rocky Top for an entire week at the end of December. I was actually looking forward to it. Tennessee has a better fight song than Nebraska. -- Al Michaels
The Glass Menagerie' by Tennessee Williams is a great play. I had to read it for school when I was younger, but I started writing scripts after that. That's what got me into writing. -- Jake T. Austin
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
I grew up hiking and horseback riding in Tennessee, so I love being outside. I will joyfully run 12 miles, but I'm not very good at boot camps. When they start yelling, I start laughing." -- Rachel Boston
Over the last decade, at considerable cost to me in money and effort, confronted with ridicule and intimidation, I have brought more than a dozen lawsuits challenging the corruption in the election process in Tennessee. -- John Jay Hooker

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