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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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.
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Every afternoon I listened to the Metropolitan Opera radio broadcasts and when I was four, I told my mother and father that it was my destiny to sing there, that I was going to sing at the Metropolitan Opera of New York City.
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You have to take a huge loss financially to do a play,
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There's no question that at some point we're going to go on tour.
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We have one major competitor which does a good job at what it does,
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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.
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We wanted to do another and kept saying we would. But we always had our bills to pay and our many individual commitments.
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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.