Iris DeMent Quotes
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I live in Derry, a little town in Ireland, and I don't have the background of Hollywood or Broadway.
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Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.
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For his own vindictive purposes, Jeffrey Sterling carelessly disclosed extremely valuable, highly classified information that he had taken an oath to keep secret.
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It's one thing if you write a song and somebody else sings it because you give the OK. But if your voice is on something and you don't get the credit, it's kind of hard.
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My dad has totally taken my Cat Stevens T-shirt, but it's OK; I have his Black Flag one, and that's amazing.
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I don't regret doing any of my films. All of them have been great learning experiences, and they have contributed to making me what I am today.
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I feel sorry for the man who marries you... because everyone thinks you're sweet and you're not.
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The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.
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Anti-inflammatories always seemed to work well for my joints, but the problem was you couldn't take them all the time.
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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I just try to keep it simple, not let too many outside things influence me.
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The key to me is being different not for the sake of being different, but being the most authentic version of what you do. And definitely it takes a willingness to be different, because there was resistance for me early on, and I feel like that's usually the case when there's a certain paradigm or trend happening, and you step outside of that.
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The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
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Back in the day, cooking definitely was the thing where you could make a lot of money. Also, it was something that I liked to do.
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A good old rodeo never hurt anyone.
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I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.
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I work grief and sadness out of my body when I dance, and I bring in joy and rhythm.
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When I was confronted with official tuition, the academic thing, I could see no relationship whatever between that and the music I'd been writing since I was 11.
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Schools are successful only insofar as they reduce the dependence of a child's opportunities upon his social origins.
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Many Americans are unaware that we still have a large population of working families, elderly, and children who rely on emergency food pantries, shelters, and other resources to meet their nutritional needs.
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America is a knowledge-based society, where information counts as much as material resources. Therefore those with the power to define what qualifies as knowledge - to determine what are the accepted facts - wield the greatest social and political power.
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I felt ashamed for what I had done. I don't have any excuses. I did what I did. I take full responsibility for myself and my actions. I wouldn't pawn this off on anybody. I'm sorry it happened. And I hurt people.
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Oh yeah, alright, take it easy baby, make it last all night. She was an American Girl.
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Making the record was tons of fun, the most fun I've ever had.
