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I'm still the little southern girl from the wrong side of the tracks who really didn't feel like she belonged.


Faye Dunaway


#feel #girl #i #like #little

Well, I know a guy, he's from far far away He's a songwriter, he got something to say He says, "People in this city are too busy to hang out This town's so spread out, no one would hear you if you shout" Everyone's got a script to sell and someplace else they want to be There's always a lock that would open if you could just find the key" (It Ain't Easy Being Green)


Shannon McNally


#hollywood #hopes #illusions #los-angeles #movie-industry

I used to say that whenever people heard my Southern accent, they always wanted to deduct 100 IQ points.


Jeff Foxworthy


#always #deduct #heard #i #iq

I grew up in Beaufort, South Carolina, in a six-room farmhouse with a couple of leaning posts to keep it from fallin'. I came up in a time when men were men.


Joe Frazier


#carolina #couple #grew #i #i came

I think that often times Hollywood panders to the cliches of small town life, specifically Southern small town life, and I think that this movie does the opposite.


Josh Lucas


#does #hollywood #i #i think #life

The South: What is this place? What's different about it? Is it different anymore? Good questions. Old ones, too. People have been asking them for decades. Some of us even make our living by asking them, but we still don't agree about the answers.


John Shelton Reed


#agree #answers #anymore #asking #been

But I still do believe that there are useful things to say about Elvis Presley, including what his own ordinariness as a poor Southerner says about 20th-century hero-making.


John Shelton Reed


#about #believe #elvis #elvis presley #his

I think there's a suspicion in the South of people putting on airs. You see it in most successful Southern politicians, but you also see it in someone like Richard Petty, who may be a multimillionaire stock car driver, but he's also beloved because he has a nice self-deprecatory way about him.


John Shelton Reed


#airs #also #because #beloved #car

We could say that people who eat grits, listen to country music, follow stock-car racing, support corporal punishment in the schools, hunt 'possum, go to Baptist churches and prefer bourbon to Scotch are likely to be Southerners.


John Shelton Reed


#bourbon #churches #corporal #could #country

Do you think that the people of South Africa, or anywhere on the continent of Africa, or India, or Pakistan are longing to be kicked around all over again?


Arundhati Roy


#again #anywhere #around #continent #india