Iris DeMent Quotes
My life, it don't count for nothing;When I look at this world, I feel so small.My life, it's only a season:A passing September that no one will recall.
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I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.
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I can enjoy anywhere, and I can leave it. Life is about moving on.
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The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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It never occurred to me that I'd be on a television show or in feature films but when those came into play my dreams changed along the way.
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Peace is a day-to-day problem, the product of a multitude of events and judgments. Peace is not an 'is,' it is a 'becoming.'
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And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face.
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When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
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When you go to jail, there's so much simple stuff missing. You just want some good toilet paper or a real toothbrush, a real blanket and a real bed to lay in.
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With 'The Social Network,' I got into it at first because frankly I thought there was a cool courtroom drama to be had with the intellectual properties. And then what further drew me in was that the most extraordinary social networking device ever created was created by the world's most antisocial person. I liked that story.
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I'm the youngest of five – three girls and two boys. There was one record player for the seven of us. It was good for me, because I got to hear everyone else's music.
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I think that most people who hire me to do a remix just want it to work in a nightclub, whereas when I'm writing my own album, I don't have to worry so much about 2 A.M.
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There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.
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Poverty is not the simple result of bad geography, bad culture, bad history. It's the result of us: of the ways that people choose to organize their societies.
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Who doesn't love a 'Lifetime' movie? I think that they know their audience so well.
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Sometimes I want to party, sometimes I want to fight and sometimes I want to cry.
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Life would have been absolutely empty without imagination.
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When we're splitting our time between a physical and digital world, you have to stay safe online the same way you stay safe offline.
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Style is the hallmark of a temperament stamped upon the material at hand.
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My life, it don't count for nothing;When I look at this world, I feel so small.My life, it's only a season:A passing September that no one will recall.
