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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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"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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A.E. Samaan

"Apparently some people (who don't know history) seem to think that marriage 'always has been' exclusively between males and females - and that this modern inequality somehow justifies the enforced continuation of this inequality."

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A.E. Samaan

"Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner."

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A.E. Samaan

"Any fool can marry, but only the wise live happily ever after."

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A.E. Samaan

"Marriage is but a consolidation of resources."

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A.E. Samaan

"Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier."

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A.E. Samaan

"Husband: a former boyfriend."

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A.E. Samaan

"Her chances of a decent marriage were about to be dashed-and all because of a ferret."

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A.E. Samaan

"It is the effect of marriage to engender in several directions some of the reserve it annihilates in one."

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A.E. Samaan

"When you marry you marry the known and unknown man or woman."

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A.E. Samaan

"That is why I fought against abortion and that is why if I were still in the Senate I would be doing everything I could to defend the sanctity of marriage."

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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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Michelle Shocked
"I think the word soul has gotta come into it. Music that's created just for consuming lacks that soul, that swing, that feeling."

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

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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."

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

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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."

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

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Michelle Shocked
"Music is too important to be left to professionals."

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Michelle Shocked
"My grandmother had a Miss Margaret's School of Dance to teach tap and ballet to kids, but I never studied it. I was raised a Mormon and they're dancing fools. It's the only vice they have - dancing."

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Michelle Shocked
"People might say I'm difficult, but did you ever hear anyone describe a label as 'difficult'? By nature, artists should challenge. When they call you difficult, it is a reflection of the imbalance of power."

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