"And I've been walking 'round with memories way too long."

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Iris DeMent

#Memories Quotes #Long Quotes #Way Quotes

“Dogs would make totally incompetent criminals. If you could somehow get a group of dogs to understand the concept of the Kennedy assassination, they would all immediately confess to it. Whereas you'll never see a cat display any kind of guilty behavior, despite the fact that several cats were seen in Dallas on the grassy knoll area, not that I wish to start rumors.”
“I carry themes in my mind for years before I will try to compose them. I've got themes that will last me now 'til I die.”

Source : Andrew Lambirth, R. B. Kitaj (2004). “Kitaj”, Philip Wilson Publishers
“That soldiers do terrible things during wartime should not surprise us.”
“Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table.”
“I think what happened is that everybody's impressions got formed in those first few minutes. And I felt like, by the latter part of it, I kind of clawed my way back into the discussion. But everybody's impressions were set at the beginning. And wholly apart from me and whether I was good or bad, you know, there were a lot of hostile questions.”

Source : "Farewell to the General". "Amicus" with Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. June 28, 2016.
“When I'm writing, those ideas are seldom inspired by music itself. I won't often listen to an artist and come up with an idea.”
“Dreams are the result of a million choices, a billion failures, and a few successes.”
“I teach a course in screenwriting at Columbia, but I've never taken a course and I've never read a book about it!”

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