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Holly Near

"A lot of artists say, I'm not political. People are afraid of this word."

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"If you have carefully examined hundred people you met in your life journey, it means that you have read hundred different books! Every person you know is a book; world is full of walking books; some are boring, some are marvellous, some are weak, some are powerful, but they are all useful because they all carry different experiences of different paths!"

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"Texas has arguably the most extreme separation between the well off and everyday people in the United States."

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"People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else."

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"Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them."

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"People always ask me, how do you do everything you do?"

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"It only takes five people in black robes to determine such crucial issues for our country as abortion, pornography, same-sex 'marriage,' and religious liberties."

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"It is dishonest the way that people suddenly think they've found guitars, and wear their guitar as a badge."

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"I think that people ran out of oxygen and don't really know what happened up there, maybe some of them just made things up because they weren't sure what had happened."

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"I like this life. I like it when it's hard, and I like it better when it's not, but I know you don't get the sweet part without the bitter."
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"Language is like songs, like food, like dance-it is the expression of what we think."
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"Part of keeping space open is not to try to choose a form - to spend more time thinking about content, and let form take care of itself."
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"I don't believe in nirvana. If nirvana was handed to us on a silver platter, this would be the first day of our struggle to keep it."
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"My parents encouraged thought. You'll get through life better if you learn how to think."
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"If I didn't think and feel the way I think and feel, I couldn't sing the way I sing. And I like singing the way I sing."
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