"New Orleans. Born and raised. I lived there until I was 19."

-- Patricia Clarkson

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“We all hit bumps. But we're not defined by the bumps, we're defined by how we respond to those bumps.”
“Every few years, I go back into all the songs and I update them so that it never sounds like an oldies show. If you come to the shows, they're full of muscle. 'Copacabana' sounds like it could have been released yesterday.”
“We set ourselves to achieve a society that would be maximally tolerant. But that resolve not only gives maximum scope to the activities of those who have set themselves to achieve the maximally intolerant society. It also... paralyses our powers of resistance to them.”

Source : David Stove (2017). “On Enlightenment”, p.164, Routledge
“You seldom hear any young artists in country music.”
“Not to Learn Irish is to miss the opportunity of understanding what life in this country has meant and could mean in a better future. It is to cut oneself off from ways of being at home. If we regard self-understanding, mutual understanding, imaginative enhancement, cultural diversity and a tolerant political atmosphereas a desirable attainments, we should remember that a knowledge of the Irish language is an essential element in their realisation.”
“I always say that women are very strong and men are powerful. But beauty gives you both strength and power. I never think of it. It's just one of those natural things. It's the only thing I know how to do.”
“To walk into Bill Olsen's poems is to enter a mind so weirdly curious, you can't be released to sadness, not yet: it's just too surprising.Â But this book-half microscope, half telescope-shadows grief, our shared and ordinary life where an old neighbor obsessively gathers twigs to wish back the tree, where the moon is regularly â€˜sawn in half,â€™ where sprinklers give off â€˜little wet speeches.â€™Â What else?Â It's brilliantly instead and odd.”
“Maybe I will write a memoir, perhaps I'll do some essays, or maybe I will write a mystery story.”

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