Kathy Mattea Quotes
So I really did stop and change what I saw I was about, and really try to put that principle into play as the center of everything - my friendships, my marriage, my career, my family, my way of being in the world. And that changed everything for me.
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The use of slave women as day workers naturally broke up or made impossible the normal Negro home, and this and the slave code led to a development of which the South was really ashamed and which it often denied, and yet perfectly evident: the raising of slaves in the Border slave states for systematic sale on the commercialized cotton plantations.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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I started at the top and worked my way down.
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I feel blessed and humbled that people have loved my music. Nothing would be possible without their acceptance.
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I always feel the danger because you might always be subject to an unexpected or emergency event.
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A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
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When I was really young, I wanted to grow up and be the sun. Which shows an early penchant for ambition or narcissism or grandiosity or delusion - all of which are bellwethers for becoming a writer.
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My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed.
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Eventually somebody will want me, and there will be a role that is mine.
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I've definitely had those moments when I think a relationship with somebody is one way, and then it just flips.
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I am so in tune with my body that I know how it should feel.
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I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.
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I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level.
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All the big online retailers are looking at how to enter the Russian market.
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Sufficient for me is that honour which is not seen of men but is felt in the heart, as faithful is He who hath promised and who never lies.
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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
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The real problem is deflation. That is the opposite of inflation but equally serious to the borrower.
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No one is more enslaved than a slave who doesn't think they're enslaved.
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I love cooking and having friends over for dinner, so a beautiful table to sit around is a must.
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I write all the time because I'm lonely. When you're acting, you're working every day all day. But then you have long amounts of time off.
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I grew up in a family with two very strong women, my mother and my older sister, and they were big influences on my life. I've spent a life loving women, and studying them as much as I can, or am allowed to.
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Then to the King's Theatre, where we saw Midsummer's Night's Dream, which I had never seen before, nor shall ever again, for it is the most insipid ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life.
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People say, I am afraid of changes. But who is asking you to change? Knowledge is not a change. When you see yourself in the mirror, the first thing you will realize is that beauty that you have always looked for is right there. That's the first thing you will realize. That, to me, is the magic of this Knowledge.
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So I really did stop and change what I saw I was about, and really try to put that principle into play as the center of everything - my friendships, my marriage, my career, my family, my way of being in the world. And that changed everything for me.
