"One day, when I was about eight years old, some kids pushed me on stage at school during a talent show because they knew I could sing."

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Mavis Staples

#School Quotes #Kids Quotes #Years Quotes

“Critics have said I write without spontaneity, in cold blood. I don't. I write in hot blood.”
“Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so.”

Source : Ernst Toller (1937). “Look Through the Bars: Letters from Prison, Poems, and a New Version of "The Swallow Book"”
“If there's friends around, I'll cook. Or if I have a girlfriend. But on my own I kind of fell out of the habit of it, and it's a shame really because I know it's good for me. It's something quite therapeutic.”
“Peanut butter - the pâté of childhood.”
“You know, my hair is very upsetting to people, but it's upsetting on purpose. It is important to look old so that the young will not be afraid of dying. People don't like old women. We don't honor age in our society, and we certainly don't honor it in Hollywood.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors.”
“If anyone were to ask me what I want out of life I would say- the opportunity for doing something useful, for in no other way, I am convinced, can true happiness be attained.”
“I always felt like I was on the move, that I was going towards something.”

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