Iris DeMent Quotes
I honestly don't listen to a lot of music - I spend so much time working at my own music.
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I've always - honestly - never thought of myself as an independent director.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.
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Produce great men, the rest follows.
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The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.
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I don't do fake. That's the first thing you should know about me. I'm not one to put on airs or change my demeanor depending on where I am or who I am talking to.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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I drink tons of water. It always sounds like the lamest thing, but there's a reason you keep hearing this over and over again. It really works.
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In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'
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Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But it's working.
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I look a hundred and weigh 110 – you won't love me when you see the wreck England has made me.
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Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.
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I'm really into Greek yogurt, fruit and almonds. Those are my 'go-to' snacks.
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Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.
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I can't watch a Mayweather fight. I don't find it exciting.
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Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
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Barbarians always think of themselves as the bringers of civilization.
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There was a time when self-promotion was considered so verboten, especially for authors.
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If you don't address race, then people are like, 'Why don't you talk about the elephant in the room?' But you have to do it right. It can't be gimmicky.
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I get a handsome amount. I could definitely buy a car off one of my guest appearances. & I'm not talking about a Hyundai.
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People tend to think that because I need all this time on my own in the studio, that I need time on my own, period. And that's not really true.
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I honestly don't listen to a lot of music - I spend so much time working at my own music.
