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Mary Chapin Carpenter

"It's a pretty frantic world that we live in."

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Donna Grant

"You can look at the New York Times Bestseller List and you can be pretty sure that the writers on that list don't know each other very well."

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Donna Grant

"She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit."

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Donna Grant

"Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly."

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Donna Grant

"All the records I've made have pretty much been big club turntable records. You need to feel the rhythm."

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Donna Grant

"Yes, I do get recognized in public. It's pretty nice."

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Donna Grant

"Whenever we don't turn the ball over, we're pretty productive. When you're turning the ball over, you're cutting down on offensive opportunities."

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Donna Grant

"So the guy that we're really targeting our system at this year is one of the guys who brought a 16bit system three or four years ago and has pretty much had it with that, and he's ready to buy something new."

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Donna Grant

"I did tell security to make sure you stay and watch him pretty closely."

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Donna Grant

"I don't want to be somebody who stands still and sings pretty. Each song is a world. Each song is a story. I don't achieve nearly what I want."

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Donna Grant

"You'd have to think that you're at least decent, or you couldn't get up every morning and do it. I think if I live long enough, I might be pretty good."

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Mary Chapin Carpenter
"I don't really remember my folks singing to us, but they read to us."

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Mary Chapin Carpenter
"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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Mary Chapin Carpenter
"It's a pretty frantic world that we live in."

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Mary Chapin Carpenter
"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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Mary Chapin Carpenter
"You know, I didn't have enough money to quit my day job... the myth of the major label deal. Nowadays, you have a tour bus and a stylist and all this stuff. But back then, no way."

Money

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Mary Chapin Carpenter
"I think that every new record is a chance to... I think what it is for me is my heart and soul at that moment in time... I've always felt that just being able to make a record is a privilege."

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Mary Chapin Carpenter
"I'm a liberal arts junkie."

Liberal

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Mary Chapin Carpenter
"Emmy Lou Harris introduced me to the work of the Vietnam Veterans of America foundation and the Campaign for a Land Mine Free World."

Work

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Mary Chapin Carpenter
"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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Mary Chapin Carpenter
"There's timing. And then there's also certain people at the record company who worked incredibly hard and were incredibly enthusiastic about what I was doing."

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