Doris Eaton Travis Quotes
I reached the age of 32 and I took a good look at myself and said, "What's going on here? This is nothing. This is not life". I went back to church and began to and find myself. I got some inner strength from that.
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You don't have to be desperate. Never be desperate. That is my slogan.
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Fulfilling your mission is one thing; vision is another, and having a commitment to something leads you to do better work.
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There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'
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I personally think Beyonce's a strong feminist. What she's done in music and for women is unprecedented. I love her. She definitely makes me feel like more of a woman.
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Most of my fans, if you were to look on their iPods, you'd see every possible genre of music represented in some capacity.
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You can give some kind of spark of life to a comic that a photograph doesn't really have. A photograph, even if it's connecting with you, it seems very dead on the page sometimes.
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Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.
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The voices on the record, that was trying to treat my voice like guitar players treat guitar tones.
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To decide to become a philosopher seemed as foolish to me as to decide to become a poet.
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However one might pray - in any verbal way or completely without words - is unimportant to God. What matters is the heart's intent.
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Like men, women have to be diligent and work hard.
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I took a plane from New York City to Los Angeles for an audition. I met all the people. After that, I was told to have another audition, but I didn't want to go there again.
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If you talk to any actor, they'll tell you that working is the best thing.
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I love fashion - I really feel it's where I belong.
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In radio, you have two tools. Sound and silence.
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Being a single woman is like going off to war.
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In the mid-1980s to the early 1990s I was writing songs not because I particularly liked what I was doing, but because I was desperately trying to get back into the charts. I really didn't enjoy it. I didn't like the music I was making, I wasn't proud of it, like I have been before or since.
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I'm all in favor of banks that play their part in community endeavors, private individuals looking for loans, people who want to start up a little business, and that's what banks are for.
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I didn't date for my entire teen life - it just wasn't on my mind.
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The medium is not the message - the message is the message.
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Our stories are different; our pain is the same.
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Last winter when I was coming home from church one Thursday evening, I saw somebody run around the house again. I told my father of that.
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I never joined, but I used to go to church now and then. I liked it, because they always passed out plates of money at the end.
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I reached the age of 32 and I took a good look at myself and said, "What's going on here? This is nothing. This is not life". I went back to church and began to and find myself. I got some inner strength from that.
