When I lived in Nashville, Tanya Tucker and people like that were coming up, and I'm sure that Loretta Lynn and Tammy Wynette were going, 'What's that noise? That's not country.' It's always been this battle where whoever comes up behind the reigning stars isn't country enough. There really is a lot more crossover now.
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Related I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ... MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX I'm still a big 'Grey's Anatomy' fan. BROOKE ELLIOTT I used to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' pretty religiously. ERINN HAYES Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill ROLAND SMITH It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON About f-f-ace!" she said to the horse, flailing with her boots. "Into the barn, please. It's time fo... PETER LERANGIS You see?" Damien leaned over his desk and spread out half a dozen charcoal sketches. "These are only... RICK RIORDAN I always find Victoria's Secret models a bit weird. EDIE CAMPBELL It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea. JUDE WATSON I know what I'm like when I don't have a project coming up, and that's the mode I'm ... ALLISON WILLIAMS Loretta Lynn, Tammy Wynette, Dolly Parton and I were the first female headliners, where we would boo... BARBARA MANDRELL I've got a few ideas," (Amy) admitted. "But I don't know where we're going in the long term. I mean ... RICK RIORDAN People don't realize what's really going on in this country. There are a lot things that are... COLIN KAEPERNICK Alas, I think I am becoming a god. TITUS Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name. LUCAN I have a wife, I have sons: all of them hostages given to fate. LUCAN Look at Loretta Lynn. Look at Jeannie C. Rily singing 'Harper Valley PTA' and Tammy Wynette ... KACEY MUSGRAVES I'm proud to say that I was that guy playing the character of Dr. Burke on 'Grey's Anato... ISAIAH WASHINGTON Don't have to see," the pilot grunted. "Olga knows the way." "Funny name for an aircraft... GORDON KORMAN I believe there's - now, don't get me wrong; I'm not prejudiced - there's some white... CHARLIE SIFFORD Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end. SENECA Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness. SENECA We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing. SENECA Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take... SENECA Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life. SENECA Luck is where opportunity meets preparation. SENECA Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures. SENECA But you know, it's not easy when your husband runs for president. I mean, it's not easy for ... LAURA BUSH Before 'Grey's Anatomy,' I was doing musicals, plays, commercials, you name it. CHANDRA WILSON There's always room for your hard-core country songs, and that will always shine through, and I&... LUKE BRYAN If there's a theme to where I'm at in my life, it's that 'warts and all' is actu... MARTI NOXON I really can't describe what my stand-up is like - people see it and they say it's like that... DYLAN MORAN I'm obsessed with 'Thelma and Louise,' and therefore obsessed with Callie Khouri who wro... CONNIE BRITTON What people don't understand is that my dad isn't up on the contemporary music scene. He'... ALEXA RAY JOEL I think I've developed a sort of ADD for geography now. When I've been in a country for too ... ELIZABETH DEBICKI I've said this before, and I'm sure there are people who disagree, but I feel like one of th... AISHA TYLER I'm a country singer. I love all kinds of music, but country is where my loyalty lies. That'... GEORGE STRAIT The one thing that I'm always gonna promote is, 'Don't look at a fellow black man as an ... DEMETRIUS SHIPP, JR. I go back five generations in Jamaica. My dad grew up in Port Royal, and my mom grew up in Kingston.... DULE HILL Gamer humor ranges all over the place. What it comes down to is taking a lot of what we see in gamin... 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STYLES The truth is when you have a movie that was as successful as 'Chronicle' was, it's not a... MAX LANDIS The only thing that I don't like is my kids watching comedy that isn't actually funny. There... STEPHEN COLBERT When I plug in my guitar and play it really loud, loud enough to deafen most people, that's my s... JOE PERRY I don't know where people think I'm from, but I'm from Chicago. It's really just tha... CHANCE THE RAPPER It's not hard to get your way when it's your way or the highway. People either follow suit o... NICKI MINAJ I don't want to live in a militarised country behind an iron curtain. It's boring. Been ther... DMITRY MEDVEDEV Big stuff and little: learning how to order breakfast in a country where I don't speak the langu... ANTHONY BOURDAIN For me, I can't watch violence when it's too grotesque, and it's just like, that's r... AARON TAYLOR-JOHNSON I live in a country where I'd say nine out of ten people know me when I walk through the streets... TREVOR NOAH I'm a stand-up comic. Anything else I do besides that is a plus, but stand-up comedy is what I d... DAVE ATTELL When you label someone 'up and coming' or 'the new breakout,' there's this kind ... RUTH NEGGA I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that's how you grow. When there... MARISSA MAYER I've always thought that writing isn't really that hard. It's having a good idea that... LYLE LOVETT People think because it's photography it's not worth as much, and because it's a woman a... CINDY SHERMAN As a kid growing up St. Louis, Missouri, I lived in a predominantly black neighborhood. Any time peo... STERLING K. BROWN A lot of my music is very roots-oriented, and that's country and soul. I've been in every ro... TAYLOR HICKS That's the beauty of creativity. It comes from the ether. I like to think, sometimes, it's l... ALVIN LEE To me, what I realized when we were doing 'Spinal Tap' - and the four of us wrote that - is,... 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KIM DICKENS This country isn't a melting pot. Think of this country as a stir fry. That's what this coun... JANE ELLIOTT I'm so happy in the projects that I'm able to make, to be involved in projects like this. Th... JENNIFER CONNELLY There is definitely that thing here a little where people are like 'Oh that Broadway girl has co... LAURA BELL BUNDY I've always thought the Right-wing were ones that were inflexible and intolerant,and now I'm... JUAN WILLIAMS Over the years, there's been some cases where people did come up who said they were healed, but ... BENNY HINN It's difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn't ... RONALD REAGAN Writing by myself, I spread that out more. I'll spend more time on a song then. I'm more cri... HUNTER HAYES If it's a good song and it fits me, that's what I'm going to do, I'm not out there t... GEORGE STRAIT I'm just trying to make up for lost times, and I have total awareness that when the work is comi... RON PERLMAN Man, it's hard to beat having gotten to play Superman. But where do you go from there? Aren'... YURI LOWENTHAL One place that I really feel comfortable is being a comedienne. I'm very socially inept. There... MARGARET CHO I don't think there's ever been anyone like me that's lasted. And I'm going to keep ... PARIS HILTON I just feel like, with rappers, there's so much complacency. It's like, 'Oh, I'm a r... J. COLE With tech companies, whoever's the leader is always questioned, you know. They say, 'Is this... BILL GATES I'm not a fan of endless mystery in storytelling - I like to know where the mythology's goin... ERIC KRIPKE Acting feels different. I'm not sure exactly what that is, but it used to mean a lot more. Maybe... MEL GIBSON I had never heard much about Nashville before coming out here, and that's why it's so surpri... GARRETT HEDLUND What I've been noticing is people coming up to me and going, 'Are you an actor?' which i... 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