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Ray Stevens Quotes

I had no idea that I could sustain a career as an artist. But, I loved music and wanted to be in the music business.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: January 24, 1939

Topics

Business Music Loved Artist Career

I always dreamt of being a girl. One of my earliest memories is spinning around in my mom's skirt trying to look like a ballerina.

Girl Memories Mom Trying Look Being

It is the timber of poetry that wears most surely, and there is no timber that has not strong roots among the clay and worms.

John Millington Synge

Poetry Roots Strong Clay Worms Most

You'd have to go all the way back to 1972 to find a version of me who didn't care about theater, who didn't read Playbill and watch the Tony Awards, or get why Bob Fosse's choreography was so groundbreaking that all you need to say is 'Fosse hands' and theater people know what you mean.

Jean Hanff Korelitz

People Me Care Hands You Find

Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Mother Home Go Matters Where Well

I laugh all the time - at things, people, stuff, whatever. But, I don't laugh onstage because then it's serious business.

Business Time People Laugh Serious

Language is memory and metaphor.

Communication Memory Language

Everyone I talk to says stuff like, 'Music sucks today,' and I'm going to try and change all that.

Change Music Today Try Talk Going

My best friend - who I've known since I was 12 - and I started the DIEMON company together.

Friend Best Together Best Friend Who

A youth with his first cigar makes himself sick; a youth with his first girl makes other people sick.

Mary Wilson Little

Girl People Youth Sick First His

I believe that refusing to quit and refusing to fail will trump talent and brilliance in the end.

Talent Believe End Quit Will Fail

Re-election comes every six years, which explains why I spend so much time on Twitter. If you're an obscure judge whose name ID hovers between infinitesimal and zilch, it's political malpractice to neglect social media. I'm probably the tweetingest judge in America, which, admittedly, is like being the tallest Munchkin in Oz.

Time Social Media Name Judge Media

I've made movies that we're very successful that we're a complete surprise, and I've made movies that I thought we're going to be very successful that, you know.

Christopher Walken

Thought Surprise You Know Movies

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