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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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Akshay Vasu

"Our national media refuses to report that even the Supreme Court did not say marriage was a human right in all cases nor did it say that the heterosexual definition violated anyone's right or that the heterosexual definition of marriage was unconstitutional."

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Akshay Vasu

"Just as one has no choice but to defecate, one has no choice but to get married. If your mind remains single, then there is no problem. However, one has no choice but marry if the mind is already married."

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Akshay Vasu

"A young man married is a man that's marred."

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Akshay Vasu

"A man with a good wife is the luckiest of God's creatures, and one without must be among the most miserable, I think, the only true blessing of their lives that they don't know how poorly off they are."

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Akshay Vasu

"I think that's one of the most difficult things in any marriage - in order to build anything, you must be together. You can't build anything over the telephone."

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Akshay Vasu

"Marriage, laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence."

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Akshay Vasu

"When she had first crossed the dry and dusty world which his mind inhabited she had been like a spring shower; in opening himself to it he had not been mistaken. He had gone wrong only in assuming that marriage, by itself, gave him either power or title to appropriate that freshness. As he now saw, one might as well have thought one could buy a sunset by buying the field from which one had seen it."

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Akshay Vasu

"Men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage - they've experienced pain and bought jewelry."

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Akshay Vasu

"Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open."

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"Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage."

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Michelle Shocked
"I try to look at this music career thing as the means to an end. And really, at the end of it, I see myself on a sailboat, sailing off the edge of the world."

Music

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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."

Dance

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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."

Joy

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Michelle Shocked
"As I look back over my life, before I had any real identity, I was a traveler. I grew up an Army brat, a runaway, an activist, and a musician. All my life I've been traveling."

Life

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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."

Faith

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Michelle Shocked
"I accepted a change in my life. I didn't choose that change and those are the best changes to make."

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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."

Appreciation

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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."

People

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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."

Power

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

Mistake

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