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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My favourite animals are dogs.
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A person whose skin is metallic can no more have its reproduction restricted than a black-skinned person. Regarding life as a form of machinery and intelligent machines as people without our environmental limitations is essential in understanding FAP, the Final Anthropic Principle, which deals with evolution in the far future.
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I now do my own cabaret act, singing and telling stories about my life.
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My first love was singing and I had no time for boys.
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'All the same,' said the Scarecrow, 'I shall ask for brains instead of a heart; for a fool would not know what to do with a heart if he had one.' 'I shall take the heart,' returned the Tin Woodman; 'for brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world.'
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To me acting and singing are worlds apart.
