"I've always written about things that cause me to feel something."

-- Iris DeMent

#Causes Quotes #Feels Quotes

“I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor. I just really, really amused myself and my friends with memorizing entire George Carlin or Steve Martin albums.”
“I feel like a man who has had truckloads of filth heaped upon him; I am now asked to struggle to my feet and talk while more truckloads pour more filth around my head.”
“People think I am dead because they havenâ€™t seen me around for awhile. Iâ€™m not dead, Iâ€™m very much alive, as you can see. Although, there are two things I do before I get up every morning. I look around and if I donâ€™t smell flowers or see candles flickering I go ahead and get up.”
“Species evolve to meet the environment. An intelligent species changes the environment to suit itself. As soon as a species becomes intelligent, it should stop evolving.”
“They would wake me up when I was sleeping, and say sing a song for our friends. I had a sweet voice, I had a nice little tenor voice. God knows what I sang, but my whole family would admire me.”
“The race that does not value trained intelligence is doomed.”
“There are many matters and many circumstances in which consciousness is undesirable and silence is golden, so that secrecy can be used as a marker to tell us that we are approaching the holy.”
“Each new generation is a fresh invasion of savages.”

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