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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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"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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"It was my study of the two Corinthian letters that first caused me to concentrate my attention more directly on the relation of the apostle Paul to the older apostles."

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"The problem... is that most members of Congress don't pay attention to what's going on."

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"The British feel of blues has been hard, rather than emotional. Far too much emphasis on 12 bar, too little attention to words, far too little originality."

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"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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"Early on, I found the attention completely embarrassing. I'd cringe if I saw my picture on the cover of a magazine."

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"You have to pay attention to the moment and make it the best it can be for you. I've been trying to do that. It's really made a major difference for me. I'm a happier person."

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"I'm not bothered by the paparazzi and I don't feel hemmed in, I've never felt that. My youth, mind you, there wasn't quite the same attention to celebrities as there is now, but I've never felt that."

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"Very often the law of extremity demands an attention to irrelevance."

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"In the first place, you must pay great attention to the key note."

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"We've all been in the middle of a conversation and the person with whom we are speaking breaks eye contact, appears distracted, glazes over, or looks elsewhere. Their simple eye movement can quickly break down communications by making us feel ignored, dismissed, or rejected. For some, it may be accidental and unintentional, while for others, avoiding eye contact is on purpose."

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"I've always been aware of having feelings that were pretty intense at times. I imagine most people have had that, or they wouldn't be human."
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"I was mainly influenced by the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, and others like Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash."
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"I've always written about things that cause me to feel something."
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"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."
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"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."
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"Making the record was tons of fun, the most fun I've ever had."
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"Turn off the TV and start digging around for information that's not from a corporation trying to make money."
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"Maybe I spent more time dwelling on emotions than some people, and maybe that's why I ended up writing."
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"I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else."
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"I don't describe myself as a Christian or religious, but I like to think that how I live my life is honest."
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