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Iris DeMent

"Maybe I spent more time dwelling on emotions than some people, and maybe that's why I ended up writing."

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Donna Grant

"We cannot measure time. We can only measure changes of life and the universe."

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Donna Grant

"I wouldn't ask too much of her,' I ventured. 'You can't change the past.''Can't change the past?' he cried incredulously. 'Why of course you can!"

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Donna Grant

"Life is a bubble in the ocean of time. At the same time, it can hold all the water of the ocean in her heart."

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Donna Grant

"A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars."

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Donna Grant

"God had infinite time to give us.... He cut it up into a near succession of new mornings and with each therefore a new idea new inventions and new applications."

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Donna Grant

"Time is the greatest and longest-established spinner of all. ... His factory is a secret place his work noiseless and his hands are mutes."

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Donna Grant

"Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke."

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Donna Grant

"The value of time is immeasurable."

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Donna Grant

"Sometimes I feel like if you just watch things, just sit still and let the world exist in front of you - sometimes I swear that just for a second time freezes and the world pauses in its tilt. Just for a second. And if you somehow found a way to live in that second, then you would live forever."

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Donna Grant

"Worrying about what happened on Monday, or, what might happen on Wednesday, is at the expense of one's Tuesday."

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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."

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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."

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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."

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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
"Turn off the TV and start digging around for information that's not from a corporation trying to make money."

Money

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