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"When you really are country, and you don't just wear it like a piece of clothing or something, you really can't get away from it. It just is who you are."
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"What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds."

"America is the most fertile ground of opportunity."

"This country and the Commonwealth last Tuesday were not far from the Kingdom of Heaven."

"In the city a funeral is just an interruption of traffic; in the country it is a form of popular entertainment."

"To be able to detect the outbreak of avian flu anywhere in the world is going to require a partnership of several countries that will share information and samples, but it is important to remember a threat anywhere is a threat everywhere."

"We are a country of excess. So it's not the violence, per se, but the exacerbation and constant repetition."

"If you can sell green toothpaste in this country, you can sell opera."

"A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can't live that way you don't stay."
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"The satisfaction comes because you work hard and it pays off. It is not as glamorous as I thought it would be, but, you know, I appreciate it more than I ever knew I would, and I love it more than I ever knew I would."

"I've learned the lesson that when you're in the middle of something that seems overwhelming, or you're in a bad situation and it seems like it's the end of the world or whatever, then you learn that it's not."

"I came to town thinking that everybody had the same idea of what country music was that I did."

"And to me, I had come out of Texas, and during that time was when I realized that a lot of people in Nashville, their idea of what country music was was not the same as mine."

"And it took me about 11 years to get a record deal, and I just had to work around and come to terms with the fact that what I was doing was going to be different, and I just had to wait until somebody was ready to jump on the bandwagon."

"With this album, I tried not to think too much. If I heard a song that I loved, I promised myself I wouldn't over-think it. If I loved it and if I wanted to cut it, I would."

"So you do shorter versions of the hits, or you take out a long guitar solo or things like that to make time for the hits and new music as well. But I don't think any of us ever get to do as much new music as we would like to."

"And I also have a camera, a Web cam, and I have one at home, so I can hook up and talk to the girls, and they can see me while we're on the bus in the middle of nowhere."

"And for the past 10 years I've been in a real commercial setting where people are all about numbers, they're all about that bottom line. So it's nice to step out of that and hang out with a bunch of people who play music just because they love it, as you can imagine."

"It's hard either way, at home or on the bus, I think the hardest thing probably for me is going one second from being mom to right out on the stage and having to be that person too. It's hard to switch gears."
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