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“Sometimes you’ve got to let everything go - purge yourself. If you are unhappy with anything . . . whatever is bringing you down, get rid of it. Because you’ll find that when you’re free, your true creativity, your true self comes out.”
Tina Turner
And just in case you were wondering where in the […]
“Globe-trotting Hollywood couple Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have moved to New Orleans and plan to send their three children to school there, Us Weekly magazine reported on Tuesday.
“We love it there,” Jolie was quoted as saying in confirming the move at the Golden Globe awards ceremony in Los Angeles on Monday night. […]
We have a second home in Florida, but it sure doesn’t look anything like this!
It used to belong to Holk Hogan, but it was put on the market of June 2006 for something like 25 million dollars, so I would expect that the new owners have taken possession by now.
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When I first began to research famous people from this particular state, I expected to find a few, but I wasn’t expecting to find so many. The names you see below are just a fraction. Here is the entire list!
Nipsey Russell comedian, Atlanta
Ray Stevens singer/songwriter, Clarksdale
Janelle Taylor romance novelist, Athens
Clarence Thomas supreme court associate justice, […]
I’m still the little southern girl from the wrong side of the tracks who really didn’t feel like she belonged.
Faye Dunaway
*born 14 January 1941 in Bascom, Florida
If this interview is any indication, it seems that she has lost that “little girl from the wrong side of the tracks” persona.
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I grew up in the south, poor - on rock, dirt roads.”
- Tina Turner
Well, I guess she is pointing out that regardless of where we start out, we can always make our mark on the world. Now that I think about it, a lot of celebrities started in the south. I wonder what it is […]
My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with.
Oprah Winfrey
“Born in Kosciusko, Mississippi, Oprah Winfrey was reared by her grandmother on a farm where she “began her broadcasting career” by learning to read aloud and perform recitations at the age of three. From age six to 13, she […]
Memphis resident, Elizabeth Bolden, is now the oldest living person in the world. Bolden has been the 2nd oldest in the world until Maria Esther de Capovilla, age 116 of Ecuador, passed away a couple of days ago from complications due to pneumonia. Bolden, also 116 years old, lives in a nursing home in Memphis. […]
We can add another celebrity to our Celebrities of the South category. It seems that Kenny Chesney was born in Knoxville, TN March 26, 1968. Just in case you have to refresh your memory here he is singing… “Me and You.
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I had no idea that so many familiar names were born in this particular state. One that really jumped out at me… Willie Mays. Yes baseball is a popular topic around our house.
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From the Interstates to the backroads throughout Texas to D.C., travel along at Southern Byways to discover new places to visit.
Written by Apryl Chapman Thomas [email], and Katherine Lynch [email] for b5media.
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