Alison Krauss Quotes
I find the songs I want to record by listening to as much music as I can. 'When I hear things I really like, I ask the writers to send me a tape of everything they've ever written.
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I don't think I knew that you could be a novelist. I think a lot of my students are in the same condition. I thought it was unreachable, that it was sort of dead people. It took me a long time - I think I was well into novel writing before I really thought, 'Actually, this is a valid pastime.'
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I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not.
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The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.
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The judge is forced for the most part to reach his audience through the medium of the press whose reporting of judicial decisions is all too often inaccurate and superficial.
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I'd like to be Queen Elizabeth.
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Follow me around. I don't care. If anybody wants to put a tail on me, go ahead. They'd be very bored.
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When I talk to people in need, they tell me they want to hope; they are eager for opportunity; they are ready for better days. And I can tell you that every time their hopes are disappointed, all nations lose.
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My favorite thing is to have a big dinner with friends and talk about life.
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It's never been seen that a street artist go as far as I've gone - keep consistent without wanting to do a bunch of ventures outside of music to keep my face out there.
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I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.
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Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But there's nothing like writing about it right away.
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I can laugh and cry at the drop of a freakin' hat - all at the same time.
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Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.
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Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach.
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I don't want to go to prison... but there is nothing they can do to me that will make me stop this referendum.
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Practicing medicine is not only my vocation, it gives me an opportunity to continue to be in direct contact with people, to see them and hear their needs.
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I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
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I really love learning and working long hours.
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If I could have anything right now, it would be the ability to continue as secretary of state.
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I find a pregnant body to be beautiful and an incredible reminder of what a woman's body is made to do.
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The problem was just a mean attitude that festers and has to be challenged.
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Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism.
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I find the songs I want to record by listening to as much music as I can. 'When I hear things I really like, I ask the writers to send me a tape of everything they've ever written.
