Bobbie Ann Mason Quotes
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When I was younger we had a grape arbor, and my mom would go out and pick grapes and make grape jam in the sink - boil it, put it in jars, and give it away as gifts.
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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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We have lost a lot of ground to the extremists in the Middle East.
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Actually I dance really well on the floor.
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Maybe someday there will be a song I write that I never let see the light of day because I don't want it to be uncontainable and have to play it again. And I have written songs like that that are just for me. It's like writing a letter to someone you're angry at but never sending it and just putting it in a drawer.
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A lot of people give up just before they're about to make it. You know you never know when that next obstacle is going to be the last one.
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Is your remarkably sexist drivel intentional, or just some horrible mistake?
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To be honest with you, there's nothing that bores me more than sitting around with a bunch of actors talking shop. I love actors and I've got friends that are actors. They're interesting people. But for some reason, usually when it comes round to talking shop, there's a part of me that doesn't like it.
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I love to swim. When I jump in the water, I feel like I'm 12 years old again. It's really funny how it does that to me.
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I grew up on the precursors to rock and roll, rhythm and blues.
