Certainly if we hope do enhance and extend whatever natural assets we were given, we must expect to make an effort, if not actually great labor.
I can't remember when we didn't get along. Mother had a rule that if we fought, no matter who started it, she'd spank us both. We'd go to laborious pains to sneak off for a fight somewhere she wouldn't catch us, and by the time we got to the barn or wherever, we'd lose our steam and forget about it.
I have never met a happy atheist. I believe in separation of church and state, but I think we have gone so far over in the other direction of separating church and state.
I was born in a town of 200 people - it's 300 now, it's really grown - halfway between Memphis and Nashville, really the backside of nowhere.
I will not do humor that is derived from private parts or going to the bathroom. I won't do anything that involves making fun of people.
It takes a mighty good man to be better than no man at all.
Learning can take place in the backyard if there is a human being there who cares about the child. Before learning computers, children should learn to read first. They should sit around the dinner table and hear what their parents have to say and think.
We don't have the family organization the way we used to. My father lives with us because we have the room. The greatest of all opportunities for our children is a complete family unit.
You have to take a huge loss financially to do a play. You have to put aside the commercials and the speeches and the other things that put money on the table, and really save up to do it. And that's what I've done here. But it's worth it to me to be in a really good play.
Remember that not to be happy is not to be grateful.
Well, I'm leaning probably toward the sciences like physics.
When she married businessman, Arthur Carter, Dixie chose to leave the stage for eight years to raise two daughters.
Dixie's daughter, Ginna Carter, is also a screenwriter.
Dixie can play the piano, trumpet and harmonica.
At the age of 7, Dixie had to have her tonsils removed.
In 1996, Dixie authored the book Trying to Get to Heaven.
To be cruel, when Dixie was younger some children called her "Horsetooth" because of her large teeth.
Dixie has been married to fellow actor Hal Holbrook since 1984.
In 1985, Dixie had a face lift at the age of 46.
Dixie's daughters, Mary Dixie and Ginna Carter, played her nieces in one episode of Designing Women.
Did not get along with Designing Women Co-star Delta Burke.
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