Eddi Reader Quotes
I'm just an ordinary, walking-down-the-street, mother of two children who sings for her supper.
Eddi Reader
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Ethel Merman would stay with a show for years and tour with it. So would Mary Martin, the great stars. They recognized the value of that success and nurtured it. Now, you come from Hollywood, you play 12 weeks and go away. I don't think that's the best policy.
Harold Prince
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If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.
Rachel Johnson
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I decided it was time to pay tribute to my own songs, to give them the opportunity to mature and be adult.
Nanci Griffith
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Laura Bush has the face of my mother when my mother was young. The face, the body, the voice. The first time I saw on TV Laura Bush, I got frozen because it was as if my mother was not dead. 'Oh, Mama,' I said, 'Mama.'
Oriana Fallaci
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I like to think of myself as classy.
Ieva Laguna
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Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.
Zadie Smith
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I never ceased to be surprised when southern whites, at their homes or clubs, told racial jokes and spoke so derogatorily of blacks while longtime servants, for whom they quite clearly had some affection, were well within earshot.
Walter Cronkite
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I hate profile photos.
Kerry Stokes
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A mood of constructive criticism being upon me, I propose forthwith that the method of choosing legislators now prevailing in the United States be abandoned and that the method used in choosing juries be substituted. That is to say, I propose that the men who make our laws be chosen by chance and against will of all the rest of us, as now.
H. L. Mencken
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Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.
Ogden Nash
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I'm just an ordinary, walking-down-the-street, mother of two children who sings for her supper.
Eddi Reader