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Midwestern people stick together. Gee willikers, they work hard. There's no glitz, no glamour. When I was a girl in Duluth, Minnesota, I used to get up early and milk cows, so I know what hard work is.


Gena Lee Nolin

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TANITH LEE Writers tell stories better, because they've had more practice, but everyone has a book in them....
TANITH LEE I like writing about women, weak and strong, pathetic and heroic. I like writing about men, ditto. A...
TANITH LEE Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and non-fictio...
TANITH LEE Pirates have always fascinated me.
TANITH LEE I just love writing. It's magical, it's somewhere else to go, it's somewhere much more d...
TANITH LEE There is too little courtship in the world.
VERNON LEE The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading.
VERNON LEE Well, they're Southern people, and if they know you are working at home they think nothing of wa...
HARPER LEE Folks don't like to have somebody around knowing more than they do.
HARPER LEE Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it th...
HARPER LEE You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
HARPER LEE Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't ...
HARPER LEE I'm going to win so much money this year, my caddie will make the top twenty money winner's ...
LEE TREVINO There was something special and unique about the love triangle that existed between Clark Kent, Supe...
JIM LEE It has been my observation that parents kill more dreams than anybody.
SPIKE LEE Putting on a movie is like going to war - for me, at least. It's all about time; time is money, ...
LEE DANIELS The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in ...
HARPER LEE I think it would be very boring dramatically to have a film where everybody was a lawyer or doctor a...
SPIKE LEE Immortality is to live your life doing good things, and leaving your mark behind.
BRANDON LEE I don't dictate, you don't dictate to Stevie Wonder, not successfully.
SPIKE LEE Oh, if I had only known then what I know now, I would have stopped it last year when I was still you...
ANNA LEE I was a star in England, but I've never been a star in America. Now I am.
ANNA LEE They see me wheeling around in a beautiful gown, and they realize you can look elegant, and you can ...
ANNA LEE My father was an Episcopalian minister, and I've always been comforted by the power of prayer.
ANNA LEE Yes, I'm a great believer in angels.
ANNA LEE Every day that I get to step onto a set is a good day for me.
LEE NORRIS If you are caught on a golf course during a storm and are afraid of lightning, hold up a 1-iron. Not...
LEE TREVINO That last winter was a tragic story and I got no personal honour out of it but I was a witness to it...
LAURIE LEE I still sweat. My guts are still grinding out there. Sometimes I have enough cotton in my mouth to k...
LEE TREVINO I was always in trouble. I was mischievous. And movies were always a part of my world.
LEE DANIELS You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
HARPER LEE I never expected any sort of success with 'Mockingbird'... I sort of hoped someone would lik...
HARPER LEE I am so used to having two faces. A face that I had for black America and a face for white America. ...
LEE DANIELS General relativity predicts that time ends inside black holes because the gravitational collapse squ...
LEE SMOLIN Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where rea...
HARPER LEE I'm always getting injuries like bruised and bloody knuckles from catching a cymbal or the edge ...
TOMMY LEE I don't want to be remembered as 'the son of Bruce Lee'.
BRANDON LEE I feel like for me the lyric writing really comes from just what's going on in my heart and that...
AMY LEE The thing we call critics are not really reviewers, they are not really critics. They don't have...
ANG LEE I hire people brighter than me and then I get out of their way.
LEE IACOCCA There were so many things I couldn't do when my brother-in-law was president.
LEE RADZIWILL I worked at Warner Bros. for a while. I was the head of the minority talent casting. It was like pre...
LEE DANIELS The first time I drew a Superman story was 'For Tomorrow' with Brian Azzarello in 2004. It d...
JIM LEE