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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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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People are getting tired of the same material; they want to see black girls as leads in movies. And I happen to be lucky enough to understand that - and be able to grab that opportunity and run with it.
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In real life, people fumble their words. They repeat themselves and stare blankly off into space and don't listen properly to what other people are saying. I find that kind of speech fascinating but screenwriters never write dialogue like that because it doesn't look good on the page.
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Football's my No. 1 love, but basketball's right up there also. This job has prepared me for any other job I take.
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I thought I was the wrong shape: that Miss Marple would be much fluffier than me, much more wearing shawls and things. But I was persuaded, and now, well - I can only do it my way.
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When any person treats you ill or speaks ill of you, remember that he does this or says this because he thinks it is his duty. It is not possible, then, for him to follow that which seems right to you, but that which seems right to himself.
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I think you translate emotion better when you take your hands off.
