"I went to boarding school Southern, religious, and straight, and I left boarding school not being at all religious and not being straight."
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"Disneyland remains the central attraction of Southern California, but the graveyard remains our reality."
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"I'm ready to do some classics. Maybe I wasn't in the beginning. I weighed 179 pounds when I got to New York, and I had that thick Southern accent. I still talk Southern, but I can do without it."
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"I've been on what I call my UFO Tour, which means, like UFOs, I too have been appearing in small southern towns in front of a handful of hillbillies lately."
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"I didn't actually figure out how to get guidance, so I just decided to go to school at University of Southern California because they sent me a glossy brochure."
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"In the southern countries and in the regions and continents like Africa, which is where the origin of life on earth began, there is tremendous debt on humanity, it is one of the most underdeveloped areas and where the worst pandemics exist. In many incidents the European powers that colonized them are now not even capable of helping them."
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"I would rather sleep in the southern corner of a little country churchyard than in the tomb of the Capulets."
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"All Southern women wished of their menfolk was simply to be 'like Paris handsome and like Hector brave'."
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"There are a few of the open-air spirits; the more domestic of their tribe gather within-doors, plentiful as swallows under southern eaves."
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"The southern wind Doth play the trumpet to his purposes; And, by his hollow whistling in the leaves, Foretells a tempest and a blustering day."
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"I'm full of clichés - I was raised by a Southern black woman and they had a saying for everything."
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"The only place in the world that nothing has to be explained to me is the South."
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"I am a closet birdwatcher. I can identify Southern African species, but it irks me I can barely tell a jay from a blackbird in the U.K."
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"I think we Southerners have talked a fair amount of malarkey about the mystique of being Southern."
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"Southern gentility is evocative to me."
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"We still need to secure our southern border. The other thing I would say is we need to secure who visits us in the country."
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"The Sisters were Southern Baptist, and they went to church on Saturdays and Sundays, and most other days, too."
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"My mother was a Democrat - southern Democrat, y'all."
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"Southern man better keep your head, don't forget what your good book says."
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"It's quite a thing, if you've never been in or known a small southern town. The people are not particularly sophisticated, naturally. They're not worldly wise in any way. But they tell you a story whenever they see you."
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