Dixie Carter
Dixie Carter
Dixie Virginia Carterwas an American film, television and stage actress. She starred as Julia Sugarbaker on the CBS sitcom Designing Women, and as Randi King on the CBS drama series Family Law. In 2007, she was nominated for an Emmy Award for her role as Gloria Hodge on the ABC series Desperate Housewives...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actress
Date of Birth25 May 1939
CityMclemoresville, TN
CountryUnited States of America
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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.
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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.
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With my first two husbands, I always kinda sensed they thought there was something wrong with me. Maybe I was too flighty or whatever.
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I believe that the dissolution of a marriage comes about by the breaking down of self-esteem.
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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.
Eventually I lost the idea that I could have a career. I thought I was too old.
The show was written just for us. We all thought we were the prettiest and the funniest.
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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.
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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.
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It takes a mighty good man to be better than no man at all.
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When we first met, I was so impressed with him. But Hal took a dislike to me, just like his character in the play. Probably my Southern politeness, which he thought was kind of phony. It was only near the end of the shoot, when I was sick as a dog with the flu and I stopped trying to charm him, that he got over that dislike, and we started to laugh together.
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We're in a very, very fortunate situation where every week we have a full 'Impact' Zone out of Universal Studios-Orlando, and probably 90 percent of that audience is from all over the country and from different parts of the world. We're lucky that those people get to come to us.