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James Agee has 40 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The mere attempt to examine my own confusion would consume volumes.
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God doesn't believe in the easy way.
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You must be in tune with the times and prepared to break with tradition.
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This continent, an open palm spread frank before the sky.
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We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the time that I lived there so successfully disguised to myself…
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In every child who is born, no matter what circumstances, and of no matter what parents, the potentiality of the human race…
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A mother never realizes that her children are no longer children.
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It is a peculiar part of the good photographer's adventure to know where luck is most likely to lie in the stream,…
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The goal is the same: life itself; and the price is the same; life itself.
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Understanding, and action proceeding from understanding and guided by it, is one weapon against the world's bombardment, the one medicine, the one…
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Isn’t every human being both a scientist and an artist; and in writing of human experience, isn’t there a good deal to…
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You've got to bear it in mind that nobody that ever lived is specially privileged; the axe can fall at any moment,…
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We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the time that I lived there so successfully disguised to myself…
— James Agee
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I auditioned at the Radisson in Knoxville, and I just did what I always do. I just try to believe what I'm…
— Brad Renfro
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My aunt in Knoxville would bring newspapers up, which we used for toilet paper. Before we used it, we'd look at the…
— Dolly Parton
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I interviewed Johnny Knoxville once. I was kind of scared to interview him because I thought he might be a real jerk,…
— Rachel Perry
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I love rhymes; I love to write a poem about New York and rhyme 'oysters' with 'The Cloisters.' And 'The lady from…
— Garrison Keillor
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When my parents went off to Knoxville to work, I lived with my father's mother. She was strict - the kind who…
— Tina Turner
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My first job was singing on the Cas Walker radio show in Knoxville, Tennessee. I was about 10 years old, and I…
— Dolly Parton
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I was on the verge of taking over a company myself, from my father, before I left Knoxville to become an actor.…
— John Cullum
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Juicy J on certain pills, cruisin' down to Knoxville
— Juicy J
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Hello, I'm Johnny Knoxville, welcome to Jackass.
— Johnny Knoxville
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