Emmylou Harris Quotes

I have just enough people paying attention that I have the freedom to be in charge. And I have a great record company - Nonesuch understands what I'm about.

Emmylou Harris

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FreedomGreatPeopleAttentionJust

The constant abuse of online activity must stop.

Joe Barton

StopAbuseActivityMustOnline

So many people are looking at what's wrong, and I try to encourage them to look at what's right in their life. A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.

Joel Osteen

LifePeopleLookingYouLookWrong

All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.

John Cheever

LifeMenRedSocietyFansRed Sox

I was about 10, and I was supposed to be playing the piano at the school concert, and I got up in front of the whole school and said, 'I'm sorry. I'm changing the agenda. I want to play some songs I've written.'

Andrew Lloyd Webber

SchoolSorryPlaySaidWantConcert

Black men and women were not allowed to register to vote. My own mother, my own father, my grandfather and my uncles and aunts could not register to vote because each time they attempted to register to vote, they were told they could not pass the literacy test.

John Lewis

FatherMotherWomenTimeMenBlack

Never argue; repeat your assertion.

Robert Owen

NeverRepeatYourArgueAssertion

When you're a movie star and you're young, you are always playing someone who's a better fighter, a better lover, a better everything than you.

Michael Caine

BetterSomeoneYouYoungFighter

As we grow up, it feels like you should either invite people into your life or not. There should be fewer and fewer instances of friends you 'can only take in small doses.'

Sloane Crosley

LifePeopleSmallGrowFriendsYou

Research can be a boon to a novelist - there are more things in heaven and Earth than can be dreamt of in a single writer's philosophy - or it can become a hindrance, a thick layer of algae that weighs down the storytelling.

Michelle Dean

ResearchPhilosophyHeavenDownMore

I find it pressurising coming to the Voodoo Rooms to do my hour of comedy.

Dominic Holland

ComedyFindComingHourVoodoo

Don't let bad or negative people bring you down.

Diana DeGarmo

PeopleNegativeYouBadDownBring

Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love.

Delmore Schwartz

LoveCourageLove IsDangerousKind

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