"I'm a hybrid-genre person, which a lot of people find confusing. I grew up listening to American country music and rock n' roll made between 1955 and 1959. The Everly Brothers and Chuck Berry were my first musical loves and are still what I am most moved by. Roy Orbison came a little bit later."

-- Teddy Thompson

#Country Quotes #Brother Quotes #Rocks Quotes

“Everybody in politics lies.”
“A rumor that followed me forever was that my family was in the mafia. For years I had to live with it. They'd call me the mafia princess, so I rolled with it for the rest of high school. People even joke about it today.”
“The Steelers drafted guys who were bigger, stronger and faster than me, but they never found one who could take my job away from me.”
“We have to understand how the extremists got the way they are. Without that kind of understanding, we'd never really get to know them. I put in nothing about their childhoods. But what I have put in is stuff about the weird symbiotic relationship between us and them.”
“If you run away from trouble, it always follows.”
“The process of creation goes on all the time. When I get through, I feel I know what the character will do in every situation. But the building up of the part is not mechanical or deliberate. It grows out of the text.”
“You are free to choose, but you are not free to alter the consequences of your decisions.”
“When you stop trying to find the right man and start becoming the right woman, the right man will find his way to you.”

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