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Tag Name "Southern" (435)

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no case of libel by a negro against a white would even reach a southern court.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
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Many Southern writers must have learned the art of storytelling from listening to oral tales. I did. It gave me the knowledge that the simplest incident can make a story.
Erskine Caldwell
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You can't do Shakespeare with a Southern accent, honey.
Katy Mixon
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Most of the volcanoes are pretty far away. You have to go to, God knows, Alaska. Or you have to go to the Southern Indies or you have to go to a specific island.
Werner Herzog
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Maybe the example of Southern fiction writing has been so powerful that Southern poets have sort of keyed themselves to that.
Robert Morgan
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I do have rules, and etiquette things. I think it's a southern thing too, to an extent. I'll hold the door for someone, but if they don't say, Thank you, it pisses me off. I say, Yes, ma'am, and, Yes, sir. Stuff that is maybe archaic in a lot of ways, but that's how I was raised, and I don't think there's really any harm in that.
Chris Black
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I like health-conscious cooking, but growing up in the South, I do love southern cooking southern France, southern Italy, southern Spain. I love southern cooking.
Clarence Clemons
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I grew up in a very bohemian environment in southern Sweden, so I was always, always, always in black jeans.
Johan Lindeberg
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There is not a single celebrated Southern name in any of the departments of human industry except those of war, assassination, lynching, murder, the duel, repudiation, & massacre.
Mark Twain
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During a period of time when Italy is talking about splitting northern and southern Italy, France is talking about splitting with Corsica and Normandy, England is talking about splitting with Wales and Scotland and England. And it goes on and on and on.
Juan Enriquez
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Broadly speaking, the Southern and Western desert and mountain states will vote for the candidate who endorses an aggressive military, a role for religion in public life, laissez-faire economic policies, private ownership of guns and relaxed conditions for using them, less regulation and taxation, and a valorization of the traditional family.
Steven Pinker
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Without travel I would have wound up a little ignorant white Southern female, which was not my idea of a good life.
Lauren Hutton
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My favorite movies of all times is 'Doctor Zhivago,' and I love 'Gone With the Wind.' I'd love to play some Southern belle or something where I owned a plantation.
Dolly Parton
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People in north Michigan are not different at all from people in southern Alabama. Trust me, someone who's spent a lot of time in both places. They're all hardworking, simple people.
Kid Rock
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I'm originally from southern California, so I, like, say 'like', like, a lot. I've been trying to scrub any traces of Valley Girl from my speech since I moved to New York, but it's, like, totally way harder than anyone thinks, you know?
Mara Wilson
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I think that my interpretation of Italian was a lot more southern than what my husband cooks. You know, I grew up in Queens and in Brooklyn, and we - really, it's more southern. It's Naples and Sicily. It's heavier. It's over-spiced. And like most Americans, I thought spaghetti and meatballs was genius.
Debi Mazar
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Lots of people have expressed consternation that I haven't gotten rid of Southern accent, but I just never saw any reason to lose the flavor that I grew up with. I enjoy saying some things with a Southern accent.
Roy Blount, Jr.
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I tell ya, southern people, they always think you are hard-of-hearing. Every timr you leave they say to you, You come back, you hear? And southern people, they think you are horny too. You get directions, they say, Just up the road apiece.
Rodney Dangerfield
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I feel so fortunate. I was brought up along the beaches in Southern California, and then got to have horses.
Bo Derek
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My childhood wasn't very happy. It's a long, grim story about being a Jew in a small southern town.
Stanley Donen
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Disneyland remains the central attraction of Southern California, but the graveyard remains our reality.
Charles Bukowski
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My grandfather lived to be 96 years old. He was born in a town outside of Salerno in Southern Italy. He came to New York when he was 20. He lived in the States from age 20 to 96, but he brought his culture with him, he brought his food with him, he brought his language with him, he never spoke a word of English.
Abel Ferrara
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If there were a Mount Rushmore of American humor, Terry Southern would be the mountain they'd carve it from
Michael O'Donoghue
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Todd and Tim [Tobias] write the music, and I come up with the melodies and lyrics. I call it the Ohio Rock Factory. Tim and Todd run the northern plant in Cleveland, and I've got the southern plant down here in Dayton. No tours permitted.
Robert Pollard
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