Calamity Jane Quotes
While in El Paso, I met Mr. Clinton Burk, a native of Texas, who I married in August 1885.
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I think I've been really good at surrounding myself with really talented people. I've picked the right coattails to ride on.
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To be slandered the way I get slandered is really uncalled for, but life goes on.
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The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.
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I sing to Jesus for Jesus now. This gives me pure joy... worship!
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Brands like Starbucks came along and talked about their brand as itself being a community, the idea that Starbucks is what they like to call a 'third place,' which is not their idea; it's the idea of basic citizenry needing a place that is not work, that is not home, where citizens gather.
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I tried theatre. I played Miss Hannigan for a short run of Annie at a regional theatre. That was fun. I enjoyed it! I enjoy theatre and have so much respect for theatre actors.
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The reality of music itself, which is the fabric of life for me, is where most of my attention is.
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My kids always say to me, 'Can we watch TV?' I say, 'Absolutely!' because then I can get something done. But then they say, and I wait for it, 'But can you watch with us?' My moment of freedom vanishes. So not only do I not think TV's that great and I hate sitting in front of it, but I have to with them.
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When you get older, two things happen to you. You begin to lose your hearing, and I forget what the other one is.
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If a Democrat took Republicans on rudely, they wouldn't be elevated in the Democratic Party. There's a different standard. We're supposed to be polite to people.
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We are all the products of our own thoughts. Whatever we concentrate upon, that we are.
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When I was a kid, I read many of my mom's books. Sometimes, there were mysteries, but there were no delineations, and my mother never talked about book genres. Nor did we differentiate genres in school.
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Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.
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I really am a woman at peace.
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I've failed once or twice real big, independent.
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I hated school so bad. I only liked art class during high school. I was always smart.
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The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I am not a Virginian but an American.
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On Nov. 5, 2012, my friend Elliott Carter died in New York at the age of 103. For me, he was and remains one of the most interesting figures of music history in the past century.
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If I were running the world I would have it rain only between 2 and 5 a.m. Anyone who was out then ought to get wet.
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The Commons is one of the most depressing and intellectually unstimulating places in the country. On the state of British politics.
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Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence.
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I write and write and write, and then I edit it down to the parts that I think are amusing, or that help the storyline, or I'll write a notebook full of ideas of anecdotes or story points, and then I'll try and arrange them in a way that they would tell a semi-cohesive story.
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While in El Paso, I met Mr. Clinton Burk, a native of Texas, who I married in August 1885.
