A Quote by Charley Pride
I might have become a minor celebrity but royalty checks were a long way off.
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Royalty is completely different than celebrity. Royalty has a magic all its own.
People are too apt to treat God as if he were a minor royalty.
A band isn't a band unless they're playing together. Otherwise it's just five guys that are living off their royalty checks.
A band isn't a band unless they're playing together. Otherwise, it's just five guys that are living off their royalty checks.
A curious consequence is that I have become a minor celebrity.
I don't consider myself to be a celebrity. If anything I'm a minor celebrity or a TV star or whatever.
I didn't send back any of the royalty checks.
There are still people, obviously, who are stopping you and want a selfie because they need to justify their own lives by being in close proximity to a celebrity... but those are minor with me. I'm not a major celebrity.
Actors have become much more savvy about the nature of television celebrity these days. We were not. The kind of celebrity culture that exists now didn't exist in the 1980s.
I will say that I'm proud of my connection to DC comics because they are absolutely fabulous in sending reprint royalty checks.
Social distancing means that celebrity parties and gatherings are still a long way off, but I'm not in the least bit bothered about them starting up again.
Order was only restored in L.A. when it came time for the blacks to pick up their welfare checks three days after rioting began. ... What if the checks had never arrived? No doubt the blacks would have fully privatized the welfare state through continued looting. But they were paid off and the violence subsided.
whenever I encountered a slide show titled 'Eight Diet Foods That Pack on the Pounds' or 'Celebrity Fashion Fails,' I'd have to stop and investigate because hey, it might be information I'd need in some unforeseeable future where I had become, for some reason, a fat celebrity.
Jesus offered a single incentive to follow himto summarize his selling point: 'Follow me, and you might be happy-or you might not. Follow me, and you might be empowered-or you might not. Follow me, and you might have more friends-or you might not. Follow me, and you might have the answers-or you might not. Follow me, and you might be better off-or you might not. If you follow me, you may be worse off in every way you use to measure life. Follow me nevertheless. Because I have an offer that is worth giving up everything you have: you will learn to love well.'
I actually enjoy that I never really needed to be hanging out with every celebrity in Hollywood; I just go home and hang out with my cousins, my best friends. I'm not treated like royalty; they love me to death, but they don't treat me like royalty. So it's easy for me; they'll tell me the truth, whether it hurts or not. And I need that; I've always been given that.
I loved the idea of doing something that has this misconception about what stewardesses were. And, I also love the idea that these girls were navigating a blatantly misogynistic society, with the girdle checks and make-up checks.
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