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Mavis Staples Quotes

The best music of my life I heard at my grandmother's church, this little wooden church up on a hill.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: July 10, 1939

Topics

Life Music Best Church My Life Hill

We've seen how grassroots journalism by blogs has had an impact at various points politically, as ordinary people have amplified stories that were being ignored by the traditional press.

People Impact Journalism Seen Being

You can't be too old to be a writer, but you can definitely be too young!

Joanna Trollope

You Young Old Writer Too Definitely

Some people don't like me at all. But... whatever. It comes with the territory.

People Me Some People Whatever Like

The belt is great. You know what comes with the belt? Bigger paydays, pay-per-views, and a lot of stuff.

Great You Know Bigger Belt Stuff

I'll take my clothes off - whatever the job requires.

Job Clothes Whatever Take Off

My parents, Mary Agnes Smith and Rowland Smith, both had to work since their early teens, she in the holiday boarding house of her mother and he in his father's market garden in Marton Moss, a village on the south side of Blackpool, just north of Saint Anne's-on-Sea.

Work Father Mother Parents Holiday

It's nice to have a kind of Batman that isn't the 'I work alone. I'm darkness. I am the night' kind of thing.

Work Alone Darkness I Am Night Nice

It wasn't that the teachers were bad. From what I can remember, they were pretty good. It was about the selection of books. It was about not seeing my young life reflected back to me: my family dynamics, the noise and complexities of my neighborhood, the things I loved, like ice cream trucks and Kool-Aid.

Life Family Good Me Loved Remember

I know how I like my food. I like it spicy, salty, sticky, crunchy, juicy, oozy - basically any dish you know and love, jacked up to a bordering-on-socially-unacceptable amount of flavor.

Love Food You Know Spicy Salty

The idea that I can provide for my mother and play at the highest level in the world for football and compete against the best guys in the world - it's a very exciting idea.

Austin Seferian-Jenkins

Mother Best Football World Play

I think I'm basically the same guy I always was. Maybe I've learned, through experience, to rein in some of the anger and temper they say redheads normally have.

Experience Anger Think Say They Say

When there is a ring on my finger, which is actually given to me, then I'll tell the world. Till then, no one can claim me.

Priyanka Chopra

Me World Ring Tell Finger Claim

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