Beverly Lewis Quotes
My mother's people are Old Order Mennonite - horse and buggy Mennonite, very close cousins to the Amish. I grew up in Lancaster County and lived near Amish farm land.
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I've always loved to dress up a bit and show off.
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Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.
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Every time you work, you have to do it all over again, to rid yourself of this dross. I suppose for a person who is not an artist or not attempting art, it is not dross, because it is the common exchange of everyday life.
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I have many different sides; I can be the life and soul of the party - or a wallflower.
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I've spoken with friends who are rabbis and priests and we've agreed that most people have an emotional attachment to their faith, a desire to fulfill their spiritual longings, but they are not experts in understanding the history of their religion.
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When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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With The Key, it was, I had gone through a divorce and losing my father, and just kinda really reminiscing about how much I loved the traditional side of country music, so I made a record that was really traditional from start to finish.
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The success of Torn was a bit too much for me. I took a year off and was still scared to start the second album.
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My husband and I were married in May 2007 on a sprawling rent-a-ranch in the Texas Hill Country. On the drive from Houston, we'd stopped off for our marriage license in the former produce aisle of a Winn Dixie-turned-courthouse in San Marcos and from there drove off the grid.
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By placing discretion in the hands of an official to grant or deny a license, such a statute creates a threat of censorship that by its very existence chills free speech.
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Women have seen that they have locked themselves up with feminist writing.
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If our freedom is taken, the American dream will wither and die.
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It's easy not to bribe. But it's not so easy to keep a business running at the same time.
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We sat around and I fed them barbecue and whiskey. And pretty soon everyone started to compete with each other on the guitars. It seemed the more everyone drank and ate, the more everyone got into it.
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In 2009, I traveled to South Sudan with my organization PSI. While there, I visited a local school and met with a group of children who had formed a water club. The group learned about how to treat their drinking water and use proper hygiene practices, such as washing their hands before eating or after going to the bathroom.
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Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.
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I don't like to play the victim.
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Art makes you see people as individual, unique human beings. Art, in that way, allows us to see each other in particulate, as opposed to in aggregate.
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With more than 67 percent of the Nation's freight moving on highways, economists believe that our ability to compete internationally is tied to the quality of our infrastructure.
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You can do too much and oversell your market.
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When you go to bat as many times as I do, you're bound to get a good average. That's why I keep my projects diversified.
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If you feel good, you stand up a bit straighter.
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My mother's people are Old Order Mennonite - horse and buggy Mennonite, very close cousins to the Amish. I grew up in Lancaster County and lived near Amish farm land.
