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"I never wanted to set the world on fire. So I never had to burn any bridges behind me."
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"I can't remember a time when I wasn't singing."
Time
"Why should unmarried women be discriminated against - unmarried men are not."
Men
"I never wanted to set the world on fire. So I never had to burn any bridges behind me."
Fire
"When I was four or five, my father had a general store in Winchester and I don't think the farmers could ever leave on Saturday afternoon until I had been placed up on the counter to sing."
Father
"I'm not really a country singer, although I did make a couple albums and love its simple, straight-from-the-heart approach, but I have always sung a lot of jazz, show tunes, pop tunes, gospel and blues."
Love
"When rock came along the lyrics and melodies became less important and it bothered me to think that perhaps they might not regain the value they have to music - they are music."
Music
"I earn and pay my own way as a great many women do today."
Woman
"Trouble is part of your life - if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough."
Life
"In country music the lyric is important and the melodies get a little more complex all the time, and you hear marvelous new singers who are interested in writing and interpreting a lyric and in all form of popular music."
Music
"The best money advice ever given me was from my father. When I was a little girl, he told me, 'Don't spend anything unless you have to.'"
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"My passions have never jumped out of the fireplace and set fire to the carpet."
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"I always wanted to fire rays out of my fingertips."
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"It takes two flints to make a fire."
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"It wasn't a checkpoint but a patrol which immediately opened fire after they trained their light on us."
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"You're an old-timer if you can remember when setting the world on fire was a figure of speech."
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"I'm cautious about using fire. It can become theatrical. I am interested in the heat, not the flames."
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"There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism."
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"Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course."
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"To say that its wrong to feel this way is not the point; you do feel it. All you see is a flash of fire and, depending on your altitude, you don't even see that sometimes."
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"I have defeated this earthworm with my words. Imagine what I would have done with my fire breathing fists."
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