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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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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It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.
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Heroes aren't always people who save others in the normal sense. Sometimes they're people who keep trying even when things seem impossible.
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I first began to realize that it was time to leave my job when the sight of my manager's telephone number on my screen made my heart contract and burn.
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I think my greatest victory was every time I walked out there, I gave it everything I had. I left everything out there. That's what I'm most proud of. I can't go win Wimbledon anymore, so if what I've done in the past is not good enough, let it go. Because I'm certainly not sitting around thinking about it.
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I think it's natural as you get to the end of your twenties to start thinking about what you could have done differently - whether they went well or whether they went terribly.
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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.