Iris DeMent Quotes
Writing, overall, has never been what I'd call fun. It's fulfilling. It doesn't come real easy for me.
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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.
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For decades, scholars have studied the ways in which implicit biases affect how we perceive other people in this multiethnic society of ours. The data consistently shows that about 90 percent of us possess some implicit prejudices - and, unsurprisingly, people typically favor their own group.
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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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Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it.
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Minimalism now is a reaction to what came before. It's absolutely of its time. Music moved into the set theory thing, and moved out of it.
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Let me just say as one who has been speaker of the House, I've had to have a very thick skin about every kind of thing that was thrown at me.
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We don't ask the actor playing James Bond what his sexual preference is. So I don't know what it is, really, with trying to out actors who portray gay characters on television. But it is some sort of fascination in society.
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Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.
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No offense to music - thank you for Entertainer of the Year and all that stuff. But if you're a father or a mother, there's nothing that beats being a parent, and that's the best time of my life right there.
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I have been afraid of guns, I have sworn I would never use a gun on another person and so did not need one, and I have wanted to deny the existence of evil.
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I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
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My whole thing is I just always wanted to be a working actor and I just wanted to stop waiting tables.
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Playing live, you can't survive, certainly not in England. We used to work daytime jobs and play gigs at night. It was very exhausting.
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I enjoy music wherever it's coming from.
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I sometimes get that wonderful sympathy between me and the audience, telling me I've reached their hearts. And when I do, the thrill is mine.
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Investments are a real partnership, with an expected return; donations are a gesture made as a result of ethical, religious, or political passions.
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If I go to a baseball game, I hear 'Shoeless Joe,' but otherwise, I hear 'toe pick' five times a day. No matter how many more movies I make, that'll be on my gravestone.
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In films people basically work for the camera, you know, and that's why actors can hate each other and not be speaking to each other and still look as if they're in love because really they're loving the camera loving them.
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You don't disrupt genius at work.
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Security is a human problem.
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I waited for her to catch up, and when I did, she slowed down, and I missed seeing the light in her hair. I never told Nadia how much I liked seeing the halo the sunlight made of her hair. Sometimes silence is a habit that hurts.
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My poor little New Zealand: exporting frozen meat in peace, live meat in war.
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Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from falling hands we throw.
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Writing, overall, has never been what I'd call fun. It's fulfilling. It doesn't come real easy for me.
