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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Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer.
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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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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
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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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My uniform is sweatpants, so crusted over with dried paint that they're as hard as a table. I wear T-shirts that are also covered in paint, and Crocs.
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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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Happiness can't start with external stuff, whether that's money or success or your body.
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Elvis Presley's music never meant anything to me. Mambo was the music I loved - it spoke to me.
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All I did was go to school and play golf. I didn't have much of a social life.
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The best thing about writing speculative fiction is the opportunity to satirize the whole wide world. The America in 'A Better World' isn't ours, but it's pretty close, so I could lampoon everything from partisan politics to the cult of celebrity to our general disaffection. To me, all that is the point.
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There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.
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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.
