"I went to college and I never allowed myself to think for an instant that I would have this chance to do this."

Mary Chapin Carpenter, American Musician

Chance, College

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"I went to college and I never allowed myself to think for an instant that I would have this chance to do this."

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"About age ten, we moved from the place where I was born, moved overseas."

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

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"So I think that if I do feel more freedom right now in my career, it's not so much because I have less at stake but more a sense that I've learned more."

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

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"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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"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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