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Mary Chapin Carpenter

"I kept thinking, I went to college and I have to get a real job."

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"I kept thinking, I went to college and I have to get a real job."

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"I went to college in Ohio, at Ohio University, and I graduated two years ago."

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"It is virtually impossible to compete in today's global economy without a college degree."

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"Our record number of teenagers must become our record number of high school and college graduates and our record number of teachers, scientists, doctors, lawyers, and skilled professionals."

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"A professional player is smarter than a college man. He uses his noodle. He knows what to do and when to do it. He rarely goes up in the air as is the case with most of our college players when they get in a tight place."

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"It's a marvelous feeling when someone says 'I want to do this song of yours' because they've connected to it. That's what I'm after."
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"I've never... when I was having songs on the airwaves, and that sort of thing, I never felt a sense of pressure anywhere except from myself, to do things the way I wanted to do them; to feel authentic; to feel like I was presenting my true self to the world."
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"Dreamland is a book, but it's my song in book form. It's translated itself into a different medium."
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"My sisters and I were fortunate to travel through Asia and Europe at very young ages. We confronted extraordinary beauty in Athens and unspeakable poverty in India."
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"I was a liberal arts junkie and I figured, well, I'll go work for somebody somewhere. All I knew was that I was going to have to come home and figure it out."
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