Emmylou Harris Quotes
I'm blessed to be able to work at something that I'm good at, and that I love. It's not something I take for granted.

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I didn't audition for 'SNL.' I sent in a tape to 'SNL' the year before I started writing there, but I got the job there through doing stand-up on Fallon.
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We are the only ones who really can care about the preservation Foreigners who come to excavate, maybe some of them care about preservation, but the majority care about discoveries.
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There's no doubt in the world that directing makes you a better actor. Me, anyway. There's no doubt in the world that it makes me a more collaborative actor.
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Denied anything ardently desired, the individual or state will argue and parley just so long - then, if the impelling motive be sufficiently great, will cast aside every rule and break down every acquired inhibition, plunging viciously after the object wished; all the more fantastically savage because of previous repression.
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I want to be judged on my own merits.
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It is not only our duty but our moral obligation to break from the oppression of debt. We must rise above the political considerations and do what is right for the future of our nation.
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I am not a great fan of computers. I do watch videos and analyse which batsman is playing how. Batsmen can play different shots on different days. A batsman may not play cover drives well, but if he connects with two such shots, he starts playing the drive well on that day.
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When talking about writing, I often use the analogy of archaeology. There are these great tunes all around. Your skill as a musician allows you to pick them out without breaking them.
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Being on Broadway and getting a Tony nomination - this has been an incredible ride, from rather humble beginnings.
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I've always been a person who's been true to myself and true to others, and I'm not afraid to be honest.
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My real last name is Galifianakisburg.
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A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.
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It's very hard to put forth a film that's about love and the joy of love and for it not to be patronising and not make people nauseous or make them roll their eyes.
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That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing - which is never an easy thing to do.
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The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.
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There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.
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If you are a businessman or a politician in Iran, you can get a visa as quickly as you ask for it.
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In reality, I don't see myself as a man hunter. In fact, when it comes to love, I am rarely the one to make the first move.
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Paul Krugman is a danger to society!
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My goal would be trying to bring some light to the world, which is often a dark and violent place.
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I've been most happy to be an advocate for the kinds of grassroots things that people are doing who care about poetry.
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Either you are extrovert or introvert, and so I am an introvert in that sense. I'm not a social person that wants to go to parties.
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The work of art is a stuffed crocodile.
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I'm blessed to be able to work at something that I'm good at, and that I love. It's not something I take for granted.