William Faulkner
Novelist, Poet, Playwright
"Mississippi begins in a lobby of a Memphis, Tennessee hotel and extends south to the Gulf of Mexico"
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Elvis Presley
Singer, Actor
"I'll stay in Memphis."
Morgan Freeman
Actor, Narrator
"My parents were working in a hospital in Memphis. But I didn't live there for any length of time that I remember. The first thing I remember is the town in Mississippi that I live in now, Charleston."
Priscilla Presley
Actress
"She would go to Memphis and this was after our divorce. And I would send her to Memphis to be with him."
Lisa Marie Presley
Singer
"Anytime I was in Memphis with my dad and at the house, I was happy. That was, like, a given. It was what I lived for. And I still feel the same excitement and warmth."
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"I've got a reason to believe we all be received in Graceland, Graceland, Memphis Tennessee."
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"God chose Memphis as the place that I will continue my career."
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