#mo

I think we Southerners have talked a fair amount of malarkey about the mystique of being Southern. ↗

— Reynolds Price

#amount #being #fair #i #i think

At the end of the day, the only things that are shovel ready around here are the words coming out of Barack Obama and Joe Biden's mouth. ↗

— Reince Priebus

#barack #barack obama #coming #day #end

I can never read this book, just like I can never see a movie that I wrote a screenplay for. I can read it and see it physically, but I can't accurately judge it. I'm too close to it. If I read it ten times I'll have ten different reactions. ↗

— Richard Price

#book #close #different #i #i can

I started thinking about my relationship with my students; I'm this guy who comes in from book - and movie - land and descends on angel wings into their classroom. ↗

— Richard Price

#angel #book #classroom #comes #descends

The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate. ↗

— J. B. Priestley

#communicate #elaborate #less #means #more

If you're writing a book that takes place in New York in the moment, you can't not write about 9-11; you can't not integrate it. My main character's view is the Statue of Liberty and the Trade Center. It doesn't have to take over, but it has to be acknowledged. ↗

— Richard Price

#acknowledged #book #center #character #integrate

The tastes of country music fans are not limited to the narrow range defined by consultants and programmers and record company moguls. ↗

— Charley Pride

#consultants #country #country music #defined #fans

In 20 years I had sold more records for RCA than any artist except Elvis Presley. ↗

— Charley Pride

#artist #elvis #elvis presley #except #had

Singing as a full-time job was not something I had given a lot of thought to and I had no clear notion of the money to be made in it. ↗

— Charley Pride

#full-time #full-time job #given #had #i

Until MTV, television had not been a huge influence on music. To compete with MTV, the country music moguls felt they had to appeal to the same young audience and do it the way MTV did. ↗

— Charley Pride

#audience #been #compete #country #country music