Mavis Staples Quotes
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Most of the people who act and sing do so for their own pleasure and that of their friends and family.
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Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.
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My mother has always been open about all kinds of music and entertainment. She wanted us to see that it was not just country music and the Grand Ole Opry.
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I'm still the little southern girl from the wrong side of the tracks who really didn't feel like she belonged.
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It might be useful to distinguish between pleasure and joy. But maybe everybody does this very easily, all the time, and only I am confused.
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I went to Iceland in 1861 and went over nearly every bit of the ground made famous by the adventures of Grettir.
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There are not as many women who support the national defense budget now as men. I really think there is a gender gap in the support for the large expenditures that are necessary to modernize the force.
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I used to eat a whole chicken, every day, for lunch. I did that for four years. But it got tiring - go to the store, buy it, eat it. It's a mess.
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It's really crazy to be 36 years old and to have been doing something for 25 years.
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I don't go out unless I'm working. My quality time is when I'm doing nothing.
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It doesn't matter what color, sex, religion, age, sexual orientation, etc., everyone should have the same freedoms and liberties.
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Each time I write a new piece, whether a novel, a picture book, a speech or anything, really, it has so much to do with what I'm going through personally or a problem I'm trying to work out. When I wrote my novel 'Baby,' my three children had all just gone out the door.
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I think of each new season as an evolution, not a change in style.
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Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.
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It was in the sugar hacienda in Negros, Panay and in Central Luzon where I saw the injustices heaped upon the sugar workers, particularly the sacadas, or seasonal workers.
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It's great to be able to do shows like 'Falling in Love with the Girl Next Door,' which I think is entirely too long of a title.
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Management is all about managing in the short term, while developing the plans for the long term.
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Talent is only the starting point.
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If you look at Europe and see a continent adrift, with no identity and no strong values beyond economic equality and possessing little capacity to identify evil, let alone a will to fight it, then you need to start fighting.
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Opportunities are running out, and this is the do-or-die situation when the ball is in your hands, and you can either help your team to victory or not. And so I want to be in those situations. I think about them, and almost look forward to them.
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What poet would not grieve to see His brother write as well as he? But rather than they should excel, He'd wish his rivals all in Hell.
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There are songs that I have to play!
