"When I was writing songs or performing or producing or dabbling in movies or even putting my career on hold to go to art school, I was just following my muse. A woman who did that then was criticized for having no direction. Today they call it versatility."

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Source : Biography magazine, April 2002.

Jackie DeShannon

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“Soon, everything else would come rushing at him. Like the ground to a falling man, it would come rushing up and hit him all at once - the place, the company, her words; one implication would lead to another and shatter him - but around that intake of breath the world hung silent and bright, so bright, and Akiva only knew this one thing, and held on to it and wanted to live inside of it and stay there forever. Karou was alive.”
“Because of the diverse conditions of humans, it happens that some acts are virtuous to some people, as appropriate and suitable to them, while the same acts are immoral for others, as inappropriate to them.”
“The long-term goal of Christians in politics should be to gain exclusive control over the franchise. Those who refuse to submit publicly to the eternal sanctions of God by submitting to His Church's public marks of the covenant-baptism and holy communion-must be denied citizenship.”

Source : Gary North (1989). “Political polytheism: the myth of pluralism”, Inst for Christian Economics
“I feel most beautiful at night, when I take my makeup off and it's just me.”
“It's nice to collect stamps, but if it becomes obsessive, and you start stealing for your stamps, it becomes too much.”
“Amongst Women concentrated on the family, and the new book concentrates on a small community. The dominant units in Irish society are the family and the locality. The idea was that the whole world would grow out from that small space.”

Source : "The whole world in a community" by Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. January 5, 2002.
“When I got pregnant my foot grew, but I was denying it. I've been denying it for three years”
“Without either the first or second amendment, we would have no liberty; the first allows us to find out what's happening, the second allows us to do something about it! The second will be taken away first, followed by the first and then the rest of our freedoms.”

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