Carnegie Hall was real fabulous, but you know, it ain't as big as the Grand Ole Opry.

You're gonna have to learn to get out there in front of those cameras and hold your head up. Take charge when you're singing.

I'm not making up my mind about anything right now. Things are happening so quickly for me, and I'm still in the thinking stage.

In childhood I developed a serious throat infection, and my heart stopped beating. I recovered from that illness with a voice that boomed forth like Kate Smith's!

I've become a captive of my own ambitions.

I got me a hit record and I ain't never made a cent from it.

I'm at that point again where it don't matter where he is to me anymore.

Sitting around the house playing the wife and mother is driving me crazy.

The one thing I wanted to do more than anything else was sing country music.

I'm gonna walk a little bit of dog.

I would never have gone anywhere if it hadn't been for Mother's faith and support.

I played with Arthur Godfrey for about a year and a half.

If I made a list of the people I admire, Mom would probably fill up half of it. She could do anything and everything.

My new house is going to have wall-to-wall awards!

I'm gonna be something one of these days.

Boys, they can't take my refrigerator now. They'll never get my car now. I paid cash for 'em and they're mine, and I'm keepin' 'em!

I'm having surgery today to have my face cleaned up. But it will take some fancy stitching to make me all beautiful again!

Carnegie Hall was real fabulous, but you know, it ain't as big as the Grand Ole Opry.

I have gotten more than I asked for. All that I ever wanted was to hear my voice on record and have a song among the Top 20.

It seems that every time I stick my neck out, I get my foot into something else.

I'm not gonna ride home in the car. I'll wait for Randy. I think I'll get home quicker.

Anybody that'll stand up to The Cline is all right.

I'd like to do my first record I ever made, A Church, a Courtroom, and Then Goodbye.

I can't miss a night's work and let my public down.

I recorded a song called, I Fall to Pieces, and I was in a car wreck. Now I'm worried because I have a brand-new record, and it's called Crazy!

The difficulty is not to write but to write what you mean.

I think there's a terrible price to be paid when your exterior life is not an honest reflection of your interior life.

The BP spill was the greatest environmental catastrophe in U.S. history. Yet somehow, gas companies like BP and Halliburton ran interference on reporting that story.

When you have a fat friend there are no see-saws, only catapults.

Our literary culture is marinated in deep traditions of the fantastic and the supernatural, and we export those rich qualities in films and books on a spectacular industrial scale.

I started doing improv in college, and I met Mike Birbiglia and John Mulaney and a bunch of other very funny, talented people who I'm still friends with and work with.

You know how people say awards don't mean anything? Hello! I think the energy around them makes everyone cuckoo.

Every actor and actress is possessed of the absorbing passion to create something distinctive and unique.

Families living in dysfunction seldom have healthy boundaries. Dysfunctional families have trouble knowing where they stop and others begin.

Sooner or later you learn that you belong in the big leagues, and that makes you calm down.

I want the reader to feel something is astonishing - not the 'what happens' but the way everything happens. These long short story fictions do that best, for me.

But, on the other hand, the occasional and precarious dripping of coppers has by no means a genial effect.

I joined the board of Chipotle because no company has ever been able to scale fresh, properly sourced food in the history of America.

Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends. The mind can never break off from the journey.

There have been huge Muslim demonstrations against cartoons depicting Muhammad and any other perceived insult against Islam. But I am unaware of a single demonstration of Muslims against Muslim terror directed at non-Muslims.

Trade wars aren't started by countries appealing to respected, independent trade authorities. Rather, trade wars begin when one country decides to violate international trade rules to undercut another country's industries.

I have a group of cafes and coffee shops that I go to regularly. They usually have an area where I can plug in my computer and have a corner seat where I can do a couple hours of writing or whatever, even the noise of the surrounding people walking by. Those things are the things that stimulate me into writing.

We are really battling, today in the U.S., keeping science education in the forefront at the elementary level, and that's where the research shows that kids get interested.

Peace along with freedom and justice are the pillars for attaining both security and stability and will pave the way towards the eradication of oppression, extremism, and terrorism in our world.

I swear and it comes off a little angry, no matter how funny I'm trying to do it. If I use certain words with a certain intensity, it's like 'Whoa whoa whoa, buddy buddy!'

A comprehended god is no god.

My optimism is not based primarily on the successful march of democracy in recent times but rather is based on the experience of having lived in a fear society and studied the mechanics of tyranny that sustain such a society.

I have a teacher friend who gets nervous when there's $200 in her account. But at least she knows that in a week, she'll get another paycheck. I have no idea.

I thought I'd begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of mine.