Alison Krauss Quotes
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I'm not shy or reclusive. I just spend my time with people rather than journalists.
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I tell you, it was kind of two-fold. I fortunately had a lot of support. My coach was amazing - he told me to focus on being prepared and that is what I did. Every athlete is nervous - any athlete who tells you they're not nervous isn't telling you the truth. I was as prepared as I could be.
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There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.
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I think I'm a very intuitive actress.
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For some people, miracles serve as evidence of God's existence.
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I'm a massive fan of Drake, and we walked right past him. He's too cool to be clapping One Direction though.
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Good boys are nice - don't go for the bad ones!
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I kind of have the most amazing fans ever. They are the most committed, passionate people, and I love them so much.
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One of the regular intervals of meditation in my life, believe it or not, is in my car.
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As more and more minority groups fill our nation's classrooms, what can we do to even the separate-but-forever-unequal playing field? Now that's a question many very smart people have spent decades trying to answer.
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I grew up on a farm in a small town where you do or say one thing and everybody knows about it. You see it happen, there's always the town gossip - 'Oh did you hear about so and so, or did you hear what went on in this household?' So I learned at a very young age just to keep my mouth shut.
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I did not stop dancing; I did take two years off to get myself together.
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The most important thing to me is that it's all really raw.
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Try everything, because you're never sure what you're going to be great at.
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If the world were perfect, it wouldn't be.
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I know who my dad is, I've met him a few times, but I don't even call him dad. I know it sounds horrible, but I don't even see him as part of my family, to be honest. If you want the truth, it doesn't bother me because I don't know any different. I just know that me and my mum, that was my family.
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I feel like being an artist and being an activist are separate things; I know some people who feel very differently.
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Not very long ago some one invented the assertion that there were only 'Four Hundred' people in New York City who were really worth noticing. But a wiser man has arisen - the census taker - and his larger estimate of human interest has been preferred in marking out the field of these little stories of the 'Four Million.'
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A lot of reporters don't have conversations - they just fire off questions. I'm going to listen to what you're saying. If you start giving me a pat answer, I'm going to challenge you. That's where my sports background helps, because athletes do it all the time. So you have to stop them... and sometimes they're going to yell back at you. So what?
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Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.
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You stand your ground and you perform your art. That's what the artist does. The artist is about perfection.
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I think you translate emotion better when you take your hands off.
