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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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Amber Hurdle

"Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient."

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Amber Hurdle

"For in marriage a little licence, a little independence there mustbe between people living together day in day out in the same house; which Richard gave her, and shehim."

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Amber Hurdle

"Oh, of course there's a risk in marrying anybody, but, when it's all said and done, there's many a worse thing than a husband."

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Amber Hurdle

"Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles."

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Amber Hurdle

"I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them."

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Amber Hurdle

"The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop."

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Amber Hurdle

"Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two."

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Amber Hurdle

"I also remembered Buddy Willard saying in a sinister, knowing way that after Ihad children I would feel differently, I wouldn't want to write poems any more. So I began to think maybe it was true that when you were married and had children it was like being brainwashed, and afterward you went about numb as a slave in some private, totalitarian state."

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Amber Hurdle

"If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish."

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Amber Hurdle

"When a man has seen the woman whom he would have chosen if he had intended to marry speedily, his remaining a bachelor will usually depend on her resolution rather than on his."

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

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

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Michelle Shocked
"I walked along that slippery slope where if you fail through lack of faith, you sell your soul to the devil."

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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
"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."

Marriage

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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
"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
"They sign a bunch of women, and they call it a movement. I don't like the way women in music have been identified as women first and musicians second."

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

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Michelle Shocked
"Music is not a commodity, it's a resource."

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