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"And then, when I started to school, I found out I couldn't talk."
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"Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated."
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"It wasn't until school that we realised that we were abnormal."
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"Give a lift to a tomato, you expect her to be nice, don't ya? After all, what kind of dames thumb rides, Sunday school teachers?"
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"He nodded toward the sub. "This is going to be a blow-off day."I dragged my mind away from magical intrigue. After being homeschooled for most of my life, some parts of the "normal" school world was a mystery. "What does that mean, exactly.""Usually teacher leave subs a lesson plan, telling them what to do. I saw Ms. Terwilliger left. It said, 'Distract them."
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"I was born in Champaign in 1918. From the neighborhood elementary and intermediate schools, I went to the University High School in the twin city, Urbana."
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"The NAACP was even considering earlier this summer reassessing their position on school integration."
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"My senior year I was basically supporting myself, so it was like, Do you want to eat and pay the rent, or do you want to go to school? I wanted to eat and pay the rent."
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"It's a staggering transition for high school students that found they could study five hours a week and make As and Bs."
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"You can take a school like the University of Colorado, with a selective admission standard. It has a better caliber student going in, so you ought to have a better caliber coming out."
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"The Dewey decimal system really works. So that's all I needed to know. Elementary school taught me that."
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"I didn't get to meet Hank Williams. I was in the Air Force on Okinawa when he passed away."
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"No, my son's a songwriter and he does that."
Son
"But in those days - in the mid-'50s, early '60s - there was less than 300 radio stations that were playing country music and a lot of that wasn't full time."
Music
"You know, being an entertainer is partly being on the road, and a lot of your songs come from the road."
Being
"But now I've been in the arena for 47 years and I stutter less today than I did in those days."
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"Well, no, you can prepare it all you want, but I'd still stutter."
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"And I began to tell little anecdotes that had happened to me, and people would laugh. And I began to like that, you know. But I knew that, 'cause I'd do that in school, but I wouldn't do it out there in front of all them people."
People
"And then, when I started to school, I found out I couldn't talk."
School
"And they turned around and leased it to The Assembly Of God Churches - their headquarters are in Springfield, Missouri. They leased it to them for the first year. Then, after the first year, they will donate it to the church."
God
"I'm gonna do between 75 and 100 dates. A lot of it will be in Laughlin, Nevada; I'll be there for two weeks. And I'll work some casinos here and there, and the fair dates."
Work
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