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The name Sissy came because my brothers called me that.


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BEN MENDELSOHN I love Tom Wilkinson and Tommy Lee Jones as well as Jessica Chastain. But the person I look up to mo...
JORDAN GAVARIS You're a liberal sissy!
GEORGE BUSH That's what I love about acting and love and drama and art: that humanness we all share.
SISSY SPACEK I connect with just plain old everyday people. Human behavior fascinates me, the people who are the ...
SISSY SPACEK I hated country music growing up, but it gets in your bone marrow, kind of like a disease.
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SISSY SPACEK For me, life is a bowl of cherries.
SISSY SPACEK I had no fear 'cause it seemed everyone in the audience always applauded whatever I did. Course,...
SISSY SPACEK My parents were devoted. Civic minded. We had family counsels. Three of us children against two of t...
SISSY SPACEK My father's family is German and Czech.
SISSY SPACEK My biggest thrill in life is to read in the afternoon until I fall asleep and take a nap.
SISSY SPACEK I'm drawn to ordinary people who find themselves in extraordinary circumstances, which is a big ...
SISSY SPACEK Rarely in film acting do you get to do a scene for very long.
SISSY SPACEK I had a dozen years to act before starting a family then found that motherhood dwarfed everything el...
SISSY SPACEK You don't forget the movies, but you forget the details of them.
SISSY SPACEK I feel so blessed to get to do what I love to do and work with so many wonderfully talented people, ...
SISSY SPACEK I didn't worry about leaving the fast lane - I was just so consumed with my baby that it seemed ...
SISSY SPACEK I loved growing up in a little town. I loved knowing people. I loved going to the store and running ...
SISSY SPACEK Most things in my life I had before leaving home. Values, support, great family. I was shaped at an ...
SISSY SPACEK You want to live your life and live it just as fully and as deeply as you can. That's your deep ...
SISSY SPACEK I don't have any regrets, because I think life is like a creek. It kind of meanders along, and y...
SISSY SPACEK There is a long tradition of pungent living in the South. It was wonderful to have that imprinted on...
SISSY SPACEK There's kind of a time you get warned about where the rug gets pulled out from under you: beyond...
SISSY SPACEK I lived an idyllic 'Huckleberry Finn' life in a tiny town. Climbing trees. Tagging after bro...
SISSY SPACEK Texas is so big, and the place where I grew up was so little, and I was such a little thing growing ...
SISSY SPACEK Our perception of celebrities in Hollywood is not the reality. The reality of our lives is so much l...
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SISSY SPACEK I had a dozen years to act before starting a family, then found that motherhood dwarfed everything e...
SISSY SPACEK Everybody who loves me calls me Sissy, so I guess that's just who I am. When I'm 80, they...
SISSY SPACEK I swore to my parents that no one would ever be able to buy me.
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SISSY SPACEK Chicago ain't no sissy town.
HINKY DINK KENNA In sissy times, like these, one
JOSEPH BRODSKY It's not sissy to show your feeling.
PRINCESS OF WALES DIANA I sort of felt like a sissy.
CHAD HEDRICK What was really funny is that as I got older all those guys who called me a sissy in junior high sch...
SCOTT HAMILTON Not criminal, you agent. You sissy. You would not have said that before.
SADDAM HUSSEIN I was sort of a sissy as a little kid.
SANFORD I. WEILL I didn't want to be the sissy figure skater, you know.
SCOTT HAMILTON If some sissy chick tried to kick my ass I would say hey, missy, go knit me a sweater before I slap ...
ERIC CARTMAN I do 'sissy with a heart of gold' really well.
BILLY PORTER I've never been in that situation before, crying before a race. I felt like a sissy.
CHAD HEDRICK I am actually a big sissy, and growing up, I never used to watch horror movies. 'Bambi' gave...
DANIELLE PANABAKER He wanted an eagle (specially cut from metal) to fit on the back of the sissy bar, so we made that, ...
MIKAL WILSON Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, h...
IRWIN SHAW I was scared. I've never been in the situation where I was crying before a race. I kind of felt like...
CHAD HEDRICK I think it's fascinating that I receive attention for what people perceive to be a level of manl...
NICK OFFERMAN I was a very shy character, always feeling uncomfortable because everybody was stronger than I, and ...
RICHARD P. FEYNMAN When I was young, a little kid even, my brothers would always make fun of me because my mouth was al...
BRAD HOAG Just because I'm in favor of gay rights doesn't mean that I'm gay or doesn't mean I&...
SCOTT FUJITA I came down to Orange because I sold the Smothers Brothers a song called 'Chocolate,' and th...
PAT PAULSEN In all, the future secretary of defense and wartime vice president[, Dick Cheney,] would receive fiv...
CHARLIE SAVAGE I'd always liked to write, but I never wanted to be a writer, because it seemed a sissy occupati...
DANIEL PINKWATER I'm coming out with my line of shoes and my very first shoe is called 'The Nethia.' How ...
NENE LEAKES My parents went through the dictionary looking for a beautiful name, nearly called me Banyan, flicke...
CHINA MIEVILLE And enough for me that when my hand touched your shoulder, you leaned on me; and when you felt me sl...
ORSON SCOTT CARD Do our cats name us? My former husband swore that Humphrey and Dolly and Bean Blossom called me Th...
ELEANORA WALKER Oh, yes. I knew I was weird by the time I was four. I knew I wasn't like other boys. I knew I was mo...
ROBERT CRUMB And afterward came out his brother, that had the scarlet thread upon his hand: and his name was call...
BIBLE My mom was so angry at me and my brothers, because we forgot to call her, to say that I'm still aliv...
JON BON JOVI That's because the name has almost become a brand name. My essence is still me. But that name Corey ...
COREY HART Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life! Because I lie and sign myself to li...
ARTHUR MILLER I changed my name when I was about twelve because I didn't like being called Sue or Susie. I fel...
SIGOURNEY WEAVER I knew I was weird by the time I was four. I knew I wasn't like other boys. I knew I was more fe...
ROBERT CRUMB When I called him I asked if he had heard about my brothers and my daddy. He said: 'Your cousins lie...
ALONZO HORTON You never know. Arizona called me the other day, and I had no clue they even knew my name.
BRENT HAWKINS I am and always will be an HRH. But out of personal choice I like to be called William because that ...
PRINCE WILLIAM I had a political consultant tell me that with my name, she could easily get me elected to the Supre...
GROVER CLEVELAND Oh, yes. I knew I was weird by the time I was four. I knew I wasn't like other boys. I knew I wa...
ROBERT CRUMB Tuppence was what my grandmother nicknamed my mother, so she gave it to me. My sister is called Ange...
TUPPENCE MIDDLETON My dad named me Dakota and my mom came up with my first name Hannah. So it's Hannah Dakota Fanning.
DAKOTA FANNING When I heard my name called I was just so psyched. I'd heard they were one of the teams interested i...
BLAKE WAGNER And he called the name of that place Bethel: but the name of that city was called Luz at the first.
BIBLE It meant a lot to me knowing that when I came to the ballpark, my name was going to be on the lineup...
GARY MATTHEWS O, brothers! let us leave the shame and sin Of taking vainly in a plaintive mood, The holy na...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING My dad named me Dakota and my mom came up with my first name Hannah. So it's Hannah Dakota Fanni...
DAKOTA FANNING People called me the godmother of punk, but I never name myself anything.
PATTI SMITH A snake was never called by its name at night, because it would hear. It was called a string.
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CHARLIE MANUEL McDonald's name came up, but he's not the player for me.
COLIN TODD Then love knew it was called love.
And when I lifted my eyes to your name,
suddenly your...
PABLO NERUDA And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.
BIBLE I love my name. I didn't used to when I was a kid. People called me Lucky Charms, after the brea...
LUCKY BLUE SMITH When you're singing, you're using extra muscles, and it requires a lot of exercise and breat...
WILLIE NELSON It's a pretty good movie. I had to see it because I wanted to find out where my name came from.
D'BRICKASHAW FERGUSON And Jacob sod pottage: and Esau came from the field, and he was faint: / And Esau said to Jacob, Fee...
BIBLE The name change wasn't that dramatic because people already called it Art Walk anyway. We just decid...
CINDY MORRISON Within our culture, every school has a swimming pool. We lived on the coast. People swam in the surf...
GEOFFREY RUSH The man who buried Malcolm X - my Muslim imam, priest - he, after I got beat up by police... came to...
AMIRI BARAKA My brother had a big band in high school; after that we continued to play together, eventually formi...
CHUCK MANGIONE I played with my brothers all the time. It was good competition with (Ken), who is only two years ol...
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SISSY SPACEK Everybody who loves me calls me Sissy, so I guess that's just who I am. When I'm 80, they...
SISSY SPACEK For me, I never really wanted to be in a 'Sissy Spacek' vehicle. That was not my intention. ...
SISSY SPACEK I swore to my parents that no one would ever be able to buy me.
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SISSY SPACEK Junior and senior high school years were not a good time.
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