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Michelle Shocked

"I think people have to choose between living with contradictions or painting themselves into a corner. I have a lot of contradictions."

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Amber Hurdle

"The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over."

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Amber Hurdle

"For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion."

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Amber Hurdle

"What had begun as a movement to free all black people from racist oppression became a movement with its primary goal the establishment of black male patriarchy."

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Amber Hurdle

"They're talking about banning cigarette smoking now in any place that's used by ten or more people in a week, which, I guess, means that Madonna can't even smoke in bed."

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Amber Hurdle

"Let's make a law that gay people can have birthdays, but straight people get more cake - you know, to send the right message to kids."

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Amber Hurdle

"The tea baggers. The one thing they hate is when you call them racist. The other thing they hate is black people. But they won't say it."

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Amber Hurdle

"Good-looking people with strong, fluoridated teeth get things handed to them on platters."

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Amber Hurdle

"I don't want my books to exclude anyone, but if they have to, then I would rather they excluded the people who feel they are too smart for them!"

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Amber Hurdle

"With Google I'm starting to burn out on knowing the answer to everything. People in the year 2020 are going to be nostalgic for the sensation of feeling clueless."

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Amber Hurdle

"Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second."

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Michelle Shocked
"I'm a perfectionist, which I think is a mistake."

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Michelle Shocked
"The thing I fail to do is fully comprehend what's given back to me by the audience. You would think you would be a performer partly so you could feel all the appreciation or adulation, but I haven't quite managed that yet."

Appreciation

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Michelle Shocked
"Make your own music. It can be done."

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Michelle Shocked
"As I look back over my life, before I had any real identity, I was a traveler. I grew up an Army brat, a runaway, an activist, and a musician. All my life I've been traveling."

Life

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Michelle Shocked
"I think people have to choose between living with contradictions or painting themselves into a corner. I have a lot of contradictions."

People

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Michelle Shocked
"I'm too shy, really to be able to hang out with my heroes for too long."

Heroes

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Michelle Shocked
"I accepted a change in my life. I didn't choose that change and those are the best changes to make."

Change

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Michelle Shocked
"Writing and singing does give me some kind of release from the demons of my past, it is a therapy of sorts, but to be honest, my marriage played a more important role in the acceptance of myself than performance has ever done."

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Michelle Shocked
"I've been through some dark times but I've experienced joy too. Now that joy can't be suppressed."

Joy

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Michelle Shocked
"They sign a bunch of women, and they call it a movement. I don't like the way women in music have been identified as women first and musicians second."

Music

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