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Iris DeMent

"This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it."

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"This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it."

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"Always keep in mind how you can best use this time that you call life."

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"I'm proud of being part Cherokee, and I think it's time all us Indians felt the same way."

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"Time is an illusion of life the life of the past and the future clouds men from the true life of the present."

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"Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them."

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"Dickens is a very underrated writer at the moment. Everyone in his time admired him but I think right now he's not spoken of enough."

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"Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness."

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"When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time."

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"Eight years involved with the nuclear industry have taught me that when nothing can possible go wrong and every avenue has been covered, then is the time to buy a house on the next continent."

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"Praise is the mode of love which always has some element of joy in it."

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"You can do and use the skills that you have. The schools need you. The teachers need you. Students and parents need you. They need your actual person: your physical personhood and your open minds and open ears and boundless compassion, sitting next to them, listening and nodding and asking questions for hours at a time."

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"I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else."
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"I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things."
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"I was mainly influenced by the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, and others like Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash."
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"If something bothers me, it bothers me for a long time until I find a way to work it out. Music provided me with a means of working things out."
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"Writing, overall, has never been what I'd call fun. It's fulfilling. It doesn't come real easy for me."
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"Making the record was tons of fun, the most fun I've ever had."
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"I don't describe myself as a Christian or religious, but I like to think that how I live my life is honest."
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"I've always written about things that cause me to feel something."
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"I honestly don't listen to a lot of music - I spend so much time working at my own music."
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