Iris DeMent Quotes
I was mainly influenced by the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, and others like Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash.
Iris DeMent
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May the soul of the late President Milton Obote... a long-time member of this parliament, rest in peace.
Yoweri Museveni
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Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another.
E. M. Forster
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Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.
M. Stanton Evans
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I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.
Faye Dunaway
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Fundamentally, footballers don't look around a dressing room and think, 'He's a black player... he's Japanese.' They don't think like that. They think, 'He's a good player; he can help. He's not very good.' I'm not trying to defend anyone's actions, but there are going to be isolated incidents because it's an emotive, passionate sport.
Gary Lineker
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I work so hard, but... everything just goes my way! It's insane!
Zara Larsson
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I became completely addicted to 'Angry Birds' for a while.
Vikas Swarup
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The field of the novel is very rich. If you're a composer, you're well aware of the history of composition, and you are trying to make your music part of that history. You're not ahistorical. In the same way, I think, if you write now, you are writing in the historical context of what the novel has been and what possibilities it has revealed.
Salman Rushdie
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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
Dan Colen
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And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me.
Larry David
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When you're out grocery shopping for your family, maybe you can put a can of cat or dog food in your cart and bring it to an animal relief center.
Rachael Ray
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It's funny to think that when you get done with an acting job, you're considered unemployed. There are definitely times when those checks don't last forever. I went to college at a private school, and I racked up quite a bit of debt. I was very slow to pay them back.
Rami Malek
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That's sort of what I felt... I miss drinking, I thought bars were truly holy places.
Joe Eszterhas
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I believe a man is better anchored who has a belief in the Supreme Being.
James Cash Penney
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What I want to accomplish artistically amounts to nothing more than fulfilling the promise of the American Revolution.
L. Neil Smith
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When I was three years old I was taken with my family to a little town in Western Minnesota, where I lived a more or less vapid and ordinary life until I was ten.
Mary MacLane
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I spent the first 16 years of my life in Scotland. My whole family is there. It's in my blood and informs my sense of humour, my point of view, the people I choose to spend time with, everything.
Gayle Rankin
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I was mainly influenced by the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, and others like Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash.
Iris DeMent
