Alice Barrett Quotes
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Tone can be as important as text.
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Once you're signed to a label you compromise.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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I worry that my daughters are too taken care of.
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I've never been one to sit around and eat my heart out. Life's too short.
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It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.
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Sometimes you have to rest in certain games, but I want to play in every game.
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In a summer marked by instability in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, I know the world also took notice of the small American city of Ferguson, Missouri - where a young man was killed, and a community was divided. So yes, we have our own racial and ethnic tensions.
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I think I've always been somebody to break rules.
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I don't think good and evil are polarized.
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I have this first album that sells more than 100,000 copies in its first week, debuts at number two, goes gold, the single goes platinum, we're doing Madison Square Garden.
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A lot of people who are overweight - not everyone, but a lot of people - are dealing with issues such as emotional issues, stress issues. They become stress eaters and emotional eaters.
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Even the most embarrassing mishap can be spun into comedic gold.
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Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.
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My wife attends a Presbyterian church.
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I ran the Iditarod twice. I finished once. I came in 42nd or 43rd place out of 70 plus teams the first time, and I scratched 80 miles from Nome the second time. You can read about my experience in the race in my books 'Woodsong' and 'Winterdance.'
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If you could stay at this stage - you're 17, and you're always going to be in love with your first love - that's probably attractive.
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When I was on a major label I felt obliged to say yes to every interview, tour and whatever else. The label is always telling you, 'This ain't going to last,' so I worked myself half to death. I learnt from that and I like to pace myself now.
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Through these fields of destructionBaptisms of fireI've witnessed your sufferingAs the battles raged higherAnd though they hurt me so badIn the fear and alarmYou did not desert meMy brothers in arms.
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I have composed too much.
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I am not going to apologize for speaking the Name of Jesus, I am not going to justify my faith to them, and I am not going to hide the light that God has put in me. If I have to sacrifice everything... I will.
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So I'm very grateful for everything that has happened in my life.
