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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If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
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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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A genius! For 37 years I've practised fourteen hours a day, and now they call me a genius!
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What do you do with your anger when the person you're mad at goes off and dies? Bury it? Bury it inside you?
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Time is so strange and life is twice as strange. You must promise me not to live to be too old, William. It if is at all convenient, die before you're fifty. It my take a bit of doing. But I advise this is simply because there is no telling when another Helen Loomis might be born. It would be dreadful, wouldn't it, if you lived on to be very very old and some afternoon in 1999 walked down Main street and saw me standing there, aged twenty-one, and the whole thing out of balance again?
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I will maintain the focus on long-term price stability as monetary policy's greatest contribution to general economic prosperity and maximum employment.
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Sisterhood cannot be assumed on the basis of gender; it must be forged in concrete historical and political practice and analysis
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There are songs that I have to play!
