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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You collect people to take with you. Some people change, other people don't... it's wonderful because I've met some incredible friends.
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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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It never occurred to me that I wouldn't go to college and have a career - as well as a family - of my own. Both my parents, but especially my mother, encouraged me and led me to believe that it was possible.
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I've plenty of bows to my string.
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I have never sought out the extraordinary or the scoop. I looked at what complemented my life. The beauty of the ordinary was always the source of my greatest emotions.
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There are songs that I have to play!
