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Buck Owens

"My mother told me on several different occasions that she was livin' her dream vicariously through me. She once said that I was getting' to do all the things that she would have wanted to have done."

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"My mother told me on several different occasions that she was livin' her dream vicariously through me. She once said that I was getting' to do all the things that she would have wanted to have done."

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Donna Grant

"A mother is the most important blessing of your life."

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Donna Grant

"When I saw Virginia Woolf, somewhere between the first and second acts, someone I had known as my mother became somebody else."

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Donna Grant

"My mother and father were fantastic, very active. I find it difficult to say this, but I'm quite a loving person and I've always been loving to my friends. In the long run, that pays off. I'm very interested in other people, and if you are, they're interested in you."

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Donna Grant

"The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart."

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Donna Grant

"A mother's love is more beautiful than any fresh flower."

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Donna Grant

"I wanted to become a kindergarten teacher like my mother."

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Donna Grant

"I had this whole ritual with my mother making the bed with me inside it so I would be invisible."

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Donna Grant

"I got a mother who's very strong after taking the whippings that she took from my father."

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Donna Grant

"I wanted to play a mother again. I thought it would be interesting to play the mother of an older child. And it was also the kind of part I've been looking for my whole career, actually, in film. You know, just to play a femme fatale who's very smart, and wicked."

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Donna Grant

"I thought I was going to be a lot more freaked out by being naked onstage. I think on film I would have been more freaked out, because film is less forgiving. But onstage it's lit so beautifully. It would make my mother look good."

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Buck Owens
"I enjoyed the Hee Haw people, but from 1980 on I didn't enjoy it and thought about leavin', and thought, hell, it's an easy job and pays wonderful. I kinda just prostituted myself for their money."

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Buck Owens
"Lady Limelight is a jealous lady. She wants all of your attention. You don't have any time to think of anything else but Lady Limelight, because pretty soon that light will be shinning on somebody else. So you better do it while you can."

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Buck Owens
"But most distinctly, I remember always saying to myself that when I get big, I'm not going to go to bed hungry, I'm not going to wear hand-me-down clothes."

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Buck Owens
"I'm in an absolute frenzy towards doing as many things as I can that I want to do today. The rest can wait till tomorrow, next week, if I'm around we'll take a look."

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Buck Owens
"I'm from the Bob Wills and the Little Richard school of music. Bob Wills did what the hell he thought, Little Richard did what he thought, and those were my big influences."

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Buck Owens
"My mother told me on several different occasions that she was livin' her dream vicariously through me. She once said that I was getting' to do all the things that she would have wanted to have done."

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Buck Owens
"The last 16 years of my daddy's life, he got to work for me, and that made him his own boss and he like that."

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Buck Owens
"I got to realizing that I wanted to record, I wanted to experiment. And doing those same old songs the same old way - I said, 'I think it's time for me to have some fun.'"

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Buck Owens
"If you want me in the Hall of Fame put me in because of some contributions that I have made to country music."

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Buck Owens
"You get up about 2-3 o'clock in the morning and get through about 7 or 8 and 12 hours later you start all over. That's the worst kind of work a person can do. You have to do these two shifts to get one day."

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