Iris DeMent Quotes
I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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In my town, and especially in my area, there were people from everywhere: Algerians, Senegalese, French people, Asians, all kinds of immigrants and natives, and everyone circulated.
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.
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No god ever gave any man anything, nor ever answered any prayer at any time - nor ever will.
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No sensible author wants anything but praise.
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I don't think it is just in the world of politics. The lack of civility in society as a whole, some of it, I believe, is very much fueled by social media and frankly, it's fueled by the fact that journalism is not journalism any more.
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Why, a quarter of a century after the Cold War, do we still have 28,000 troops in Korea?
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I have been doing so much. Speaking engagements... producing... developing a half-hour sitcom... working on a movie... leading acting workshops all over the world... and hosting 'My Black Is Beautiful,' an empowerment TV show I'm doing on BET for women.
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In a way, I'm lucky that I was never classically trained and never went to a music college. I'm just from a normal working class family and happened to get obsessed with music as a teenager.
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Well football teams are perhaps easier to control than political parties, I'm sure the Prime Minister would agree with me, but yeah I think every team needs discipline and a sense of self-belief and that's important, that's what leadership's all about.
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I spent a lot of time with a crown on my head.
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As governor, I'm spending my time focused in three areas: creating jobs, reducing the expense of government and schools.
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Honestly, I'd love to say I live this amazing Hollywood lifestyle, but actually, I'm at home with my same friends and cooking. I crochet, I do watercolor. I think what surprised me the most is that that isn't the lifestyle everyone necessarily lives.
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The only thing documentary filmmakers have to work with, at least the way I make films, is trust. That's been true of everyone from James Carville and George Stephanopoulos to the kids in 'American High' to the soldiers in 'Military Diaries' to Anna Wintour to Dick Cheney.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.
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I had an excellent math and physics teacher in high school named T.C. Patel, and in the university, I had truly dedicated professors in both physics and mathematics who gave me a sound foundation with which to pursue graduate studies.
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I love all my scoop children. But consistency and persistence is really my aim.
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You may travel far and wide but never will you find the boundaries of the soul.
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I am not an anti-Semite! I have a great respect for the Jewish people.
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What I care the most is what I can do for people. I am not into it for recognition; if it comes it will happen out of my own effort.
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I believe we all agree that, for the health of Kansas, nothing is more important than education.
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I kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly mother. I consider it my duty to be with my compatriots in this sublime and difficult moment.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
