Iris DeMent Quotes
I honestly don't listen to a lot of music - I spend so much time working at my own music.
Iris DeMent
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I've always - honestly - never thought of myself as an independent director.
Harmony Korine
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I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.
Katee Sackhoff
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Obviously, as you get a little older, you are not going to be quite as quick or quite as strong, and so I might be regarded by some as the underdog... There is actually a statue of Big Ben and I in Perth, Ont., and I was on a Canadian stamp once, and normally you have to be dead to do either of those things, and, well, here I am, still going.
Ian Millar
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At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in people when I told them - 'Oh,' they thought, 'now you are a writer' - where I really had been for the last 30-odd years.
Karen Bender
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Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.
Mallory Ortberg
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Produce great men, the rest follows.
Walt Whitman
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The emergence of civilization has everywhere followed a definable sequence.
E. O. Wilson
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Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
Napoleon Hill
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If we have any hope for survival of the music that we all love, compassion must replace name-calling, fairness must replace greed, and we need to come together as a musical community and try to understand each other's problems.
John Mellencamp
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There are so many cliches associated with mental health - such as the 'fine line between lunacy and genius' - which are, on the whole, a load of rubbish.
Jo Brand
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Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.
Jim Bishop
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I honestly don't listen to a lot of music - I spend so much time working at my own music.
Iris DeMent
