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Prayer is so incredibly powerful. It keeps you in perfect peace.
 Michelle Shocked
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I try to look at this music career thing as the means to an end. And really, at the end of it, I see myself on a sailboat, sailing off the edge of the world.
 Michelle Shocked
					 
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Music is too important to be left to professionals.
 Michelle Shocked
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The secret to a long life is knowin' when it's time to go.
 Michelle Shocked
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I've been through some dark times but I've experienced joy too. Now that joy can't be suppressed.
 Michelle Shocked
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I'm one of the few that comes from this vantage point: I never tried to get a record deal.
 Michelle Shocked
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When I grow up I want to be an old woman.
 Michelle Shocked
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If I have something to apologize, I want to be the first one to step up and make that apology. I don't want anyone to broker it for me. I don't want anyone to take the hit for me. If I have anything to apologize for, I'm only human. I'm prone to making mistakes.
 Michelle Shocked
					 
