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130 Tennessee quotes by 107 unique authors

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
In Tennessee where I grew up, there were animals, farms, wagons, mules. — Tina Turner
I was a lusty kid who loved Tennessee Williams. — St. Vincent
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… — Eli Wallach
I do a lot of American plays. I've done a lot of Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams and Neil Simon. I was in 'Sisters Rosensweig,' 'Six… — Jacki Weaver
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… — Reese Witherspoon
There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame… — George W. Bush
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… — Al Gore
Tennessee's a hillbilly dumping ground, and Georgia's a lousy state too. — Flannery O'Connor
The thing you can count on in life is that Tennessee will always be scorching hot in August. — Ann Patchett
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… — John Green
The people in this house, I felt, and I included myself, were like characters each from a different grim and gruesome fairy tale. None of… — Lorrie Moore
I cut the ribbon in Paris, and everyone in Paris speaks French — maybe you knew that. But I'm from Tennessee, and Tennessee girls don't… — Miley Cyrus
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… — Mindy Kaling
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… — Marisha Pessl
The grandmother didn't want to go to Florida. She wanted to visit some of her connections in east Tennessee and she was seizing at every… — Flannery O'Connor
I was born in Chicago, but I was raised in a town called Jackson, Tennessee. And a lot of these changes that were necessary and… — Gil Scott-Heron
Growing up on a mountain in Tennessee, I spent most of my childhood outside. — Rachel Boston
I used to play - when I first started trying to be professional, I disk jockey from 1949 to 1955 in Memphis, Tennessee, and I… — B B King
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… — Kim Cattrall
Tennessee Williams knew about the South, but he would clean it up and lie about it. — Paul Mooney
American naturalism is what my indulgent actor side loves: a bit of Tennessee Williams, a bit of Clifford Odets, August Wilson - I would just… — Emilia Clarke
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… — Natalie Babbitt
Believe it or not, I was just given an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Tennessee. — Dolly Parton
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… — Dolly Parton

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