Emmylou Harris Quotes
I have my own biography of Gram Parsons - I don't want to be part of somebody else's.
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I don't wear plaid shirts.
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I've certainly not got any famous people's numbers on my phone. It's just not my thing, really.
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My parents are high school sweethearts.
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I made that first record in 2008, alongside the EP, but my label at the time waited three years to release it. They thought maybe someone bigger would buy it, but they didn't, so in the end they just released it themselves.
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One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing. I did that with 'World's Fair,' as with all of them. The inventions of the book come as discoveries.
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But whether a couple is a man and a woman has everything to do with the meaning of marriage.
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Fall of the Berlin wall? Being there was fun. Nations that flaked off of the Soviet Union in southeastern Europe, Central Asia, and the Caucasus? Being there was not so fun.
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I never thought I would write a memoir at age 40... but I did have this unique place in history.
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I feel I should be trying to complete my life, whatever 'completing a life' means.
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Acting was always my unscratched itch, when I was in college and even afterwards.
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I doubt that most people with short-term thinking love the natural world enough to save it.
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Every year is beautiful, and I try to appreciate each moment in my career, but 30 was definitely one of my best.
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To confront those fears, in a controlled environment, where there's 300 people around you going through the same thing, it's this weird sort of yin and yang.
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I've gone from the most trusted man in America to one of the most debated.
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The federal government spends millions to run the Postal Service. I could lose your mail for half of that.
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There are a lot of people who helped make Queen Latifah who she is today. I don't forget, but a lot of people do and get big heads. My mom will make me walk the dogs or take out the trash when I go home. I'm not allowed to get a big head; I've still got to do the simple things in life.
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I think I'm a people person. I get very attached to people. And I've become so attached to all the people on my show, the cast, the crew and the producers.
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You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.
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When I was young, I was everywhere.
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I am for poetry that is admired by peasant and aristocrat alike.
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I never learned to cook; I was a little spoiled as far as that's concerned.
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It's so empowering to see yourself as a machine.
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I have my own biography of Gram Parsons - I don't want to be part of somebody else's.
