Bobbie Ann Mason Quotes
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
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I need to know the price of a gallon of milk and a dozen eggs. I need to know right now.
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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I'm not going to tell the Palestinians how to arrange themselves. If they want to have their own entity and their own parliament as they do today, that's fine. If they want to connect to Jordan, which has a very big Palestinian population, and vote in the Jordanian government, that's fine.
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Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.
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I don't get bothered by fans.
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I love Nelly. He's such a great performer. He's so hyper and so am I.
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I struggled with being a broke college graduate, and while all my friends were getting career jobs, I was working horrible part-time jobs. That's why now, even when I get tired, I think, 'This is what I asked for.'
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Until Lee Elder, the only blacks at the Masters were caddies or waiters. To ask a black man what he feels about the traditions of the Masters is like asking him how he feels about his forefathers who were slaves.
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If you think there are no new frontiers, watch a boy ring the front doorbell on his first date.
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In 1993, when I landed in Zimbabwe, there were just 10 psychiatrists in that country of 10 million people. Nine of the 10 were foreigners who spoke no regional language.
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I put some songs on the Internet back in 2009 - that's kind of how everything started with Washed Out. I had never really planned on being in a band or anything like that. It was kind of a hobby I did on my own, just recording music.
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Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within.
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I can't even imagine life without music!
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To me, being worth it means being independent and carving your own path. The L'Oreal woman is worth it because she wants to be.
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Actually I dance really well on the floor.
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Too often, campaigns are all flash and no substance.
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It's very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That's my rule.
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No, I'm not coaching. It's a huge responsibility to coach somebody.
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I usually do my writing in a very nice room, my studio, which is in the attic of our house in Wisconsin. But the nice thing about writing is that I can do it in many places. So sometimes I'll write in coffee shops.
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It's also that comedians don't have the kind of narcissism that actors have. They're writers who perform their own material. It's more interesting. And they're sexy because they risk more. Stand-up comedians risk more than anyone.
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I really believe that when you're playing a character that everything is contained in the script. If I'm pulling from things from my own life, then I think I'm being disingenuous to the character and the story.
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I grew up on the precursors to rock and roll, rhythm and blues.
