They wanted to make her less rural, less of a cartoon. Not that Southern woman are cartoonish - they're the strongest women in this country, but with Val they wanted to take the stereotypical things out.
I'm fairly certain that, at this very minute, the [Mars Polar Lander] is floating somewhere around the Neptune feeling tired and cranky and looking for a Holiday Inn. Of course, you'd have to have a heart of titanium not to feel a twinge of sadness w...
<...> slaves became the major form of Southern wealth (aside from land), and slaveholding became the means to prosperity. <...> The later impoverishment of the South nourished the myth that the slave economy had always been historically “backward,�...
We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and--in spite of True Romance magazines --we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely --at least, not all the time --but ...
Hans: [Hans uses McClane's gun and says something in an uninterpreted German on his CB Radio] Put down the gun, and give me my detonators. John McClane: Well, well, well... Hans. Hans: Put it down now. John McClane: That's pretty tricky with that acc...
Sing me a love song in a slow, southern drawl to the tune of sunny days...
Then I left that school and I went to Cerritos College, which was in southern California; they had one of the best big band programs in the country at the time.
Southerners have never been afraid of seasoning. It's kind of the other way around; our seasoning is afraid of us.
Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next 'Gone With the Wind.'
Southern California, where the American Dream came too true.
My profession is about as far away from growing up in southern Illinois as you can get.
There is no better protection against the euro crisis than successful structural reforms in southern Europe.
We are already experiencing the symptoms of climate change, especially with a hotter and drier climate in southern Australia - the rush to construct desalination plants is an expensive testament to that.
I have a wonderful family: My parents are churchgoing, salt-of-the-earth Southern people. They gave me a lot of love and are so unaffected by fame.
One of the first things a British visitor to Southern California discovers is that he must have a car. Freeways. Bad public transport. I took driving lessons.
Family trips to Yellowstone and to what are now national parks in Southern Utah, driving the primitive roads and cars of that day, were real adventures.
My dad didn't want me to listen to Zeppelin, I think because it reminded him of his wilder days, and now he's a retired Southern Baptist minister.
I have a great map of the Tibesti Mountains in the southern Sahara or Northern Chad. It's a dream of mine to go there, but it's such a volatile area, you have to be prudent.
I went to boarding school Southern, religious, and straight, and I left boarding school not being at all religious and not being straight.
Even with the fact that I grew up in North Carolina, 'Jim Rash' just screams 'Southern boy.'
I was more influenced by players like Randy Rhoads and Eddie Van Halen than by the guys in southern rock bands.
