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Iris DeMent

"I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things."

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Donna Grant

"Seeing yourself in print is such an amazing concept: you can get so much attention without having to actually show up somewhere... You don't have to dress up, for instance, and you can't hear them boo you right away."

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Donna Grant

"Better ignore it than halfheartedly listen!"

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Donna Grant

"Make It Fun. Have you ever been publicly acknowledged or called upon in a room filled with people? Depending on your personality type, it can be either exhilarating or mortifying. It certainly does grab your attention, as well as everyone else's!"

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Donna Grant

"You don't care for anybody... you just do it for attention, isn't it true?"

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Donna Grant

"You can't get attention of one who focused on himself."

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Donna Grant

"The person whose attention is in the 'pure Soul' is known as a renowned person. No one in the past had been celebrated as a famous person, they were called renowned persons. To be famous is the result of an 'above normal' state."

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Donna Grant

"The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself."

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Donna Grant

"Thirsty for attention is a cry of loneliness."

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Donna Grant

"The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility."

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Donna Grant

"All that attention to the perfect lighting, the perfect this, the perfect that, I find terribly annoying."

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Iris DeMent
"I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things."

Attention

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Iris DeMent
"This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it."

Time

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Iris DeMent
"I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else."

People

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Iris DeMent
"I've always written about things that cause me to feel something."

Cause

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Iris DeMent
"I don't describe myself as a Christian or religious, but I like to think that how I live my life is honest."

Life

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Iris DeMent
"I was mainly influenced by the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, and others like Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash."

Family

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Iris DeMent
"For a long time I was interested in being a social worker. In a lot of ways I feel that that's all my music is, trying to help people."

Music

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Iris DeMent
"I honestly don't listen to a lot of music - I spend so much time working at my own music."

Music

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Iris DeMent
"Making the record was tons of fun, the most fun I've ever had."

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Iris DeMent
"Most of the music you hear on the radio today is developed for making money. It doesn't feel true or honest. You can feel it in the music."

Music

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