Emmylou Harris Quotes
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What goes for sex goes double for politics.
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I couldn't stand back and watch the strong economy that my father envisioned go to ruins.
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I am genuinely into soul, R&B and hip hop - all these genres that get slapped under the 'soul' genre. That spoke to me more than it did to my punk-rock friends. And punk spoke more to me than it did to my soul friends. I basically didn't fit comfortably in either world.
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All creative people have to have vulnerability because those nuances are what move people. So I'm deeply insecure - but I'm good at hiding it.
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You learnt that, whatever you are doing in life, obstacles don't matter very much. Pain or other circumstances can be there, but if you want to do a job bad enough, you'll find a way to get it done.
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There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
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I almost laughed about the Machiavellian plans of the presidents of the United States.
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I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
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For me, juicing isn't about binging and cleansing; I try to incorporate it into a balanced diet.
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When I started in California, people would say, 'Enterprise who?'
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It would be a great adventure for Leicester to be in the Champions League.
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Good directors say, Here's where the play is. They stand by the heart of the matter. Some of them stand beside it.
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When your protagonist bores you, you're in trouble.
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I'm not a person who embraces challenges. I run from challenges. I break world records running from challenges.
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Actors are intelligent. Yet, many of them do not communicate well. That's what makes it so hard to have a relationship with one.
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You got to choose between tightening your belt or losing your pants.
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Laws, like houses, lean on one another.
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Sometimes you could be in an unhappy relationship; you are very much in love with someone, but it's making you unhappy and you think things can change and you can work it out.
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Whenever any great song or album gets lost in the ether, someone is deprived of the joy of hearing it, and the great effort of those who created and recorded the work is damaged.
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Before I got on full-time medication, I believed that my mental disorder was the reason I could create so much and create well, because it made me crazy. I could go to these dark places and then come out of it and just be human again.
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At school, I'd sing in groups in the locker room or in the bathroom, which was like an echo chamber. The problem is I didn't know how to get started singing professionally. The pool hall was my Facebook. I'd hang out there to keep up with what was going on and to let people know where I could be reached if singing jobs came up.
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There is another alphabet Whispering from every leaf, Singing from every river, Shimmering from every sky.
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I have a couple freeloader friends, but it's okay. I know they're gonna come in with their arms flying in the air empty-handed.
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To me acting and singing are worlds apart.
