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"I wanted to get out of Mississippi in the worst way. Go back? What I want to go back for?"
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"I want to be a big, fleshy voluptuous woman with curves. I want a big bum, but I don't have one."
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Personal Development
"I do want to go another way - to write something completely different."
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Personal Development
"You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say."
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"I didn't want to wear a checked shirt and grow a mustache - that's what you had to do, and everyone did."
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Personal Development
"Make sure you visualize what you really want, not what someone else wants for you."
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"Everyone seemed to want a piece of Ronald Reagan. It was maddening."
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Personal Development
"It's not to late to... ask yourself if you really are the person you want to be, and if not, who you do want to be."
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"Anything you really want, you can attain, if you really go after it."
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"You can never get enough of what you don't want."
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"I can't believe I've been doing it so long. In the last three or four years, I've slowed down. I'm doing only the roles I really want to do."
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"Saturday night is your big night. Everybody used to fry up fish and have one hell of a time. Find me playing till sunrise for 50 cents and a sandwich. And be glad of it. And they really liked the low-down blues."
Time
"I was so wild and crazy and dumb in my car. It didn't run but 30 miles an hour. You made do."
Car
"Now that I'm gettin' old enough to get some money, I'd like to have some money. I don't get much made, I need to conquer a big chunk of money. Not quit playin' but quit playin' so hard."
Money
"My grandmother, she say I shouldn't be playing. I should go to church. Fially, I say I'm going do this, I'm going do it. And she got where she didn't bother me about it."
Church
"I rambled all the time. I was just like that, like a rollin' stone."
Time
"I been in the blues all my life. I'm still delivering 'cause I got a long memory."
Life
"I wanted to get out of Mississippi in the worst way. Go back? What I want to go back for?"
Want
"If you got something you don't want other people to know, keep it in your pocket."
People
"Oh, I started out young. They handed me a cotton sack when I was about 8 years old. Give me a little small one, tell me to fill it up. I never did like the farm but I was out there with my grandmother, didn't want to get away from around her too far."
Old
"I stone got crazy when I saw somebody run down them strings with a bottleneck. My eyes lit up like a Christmas tree and I said that I had to learn."
Christmas
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