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“I think I was probably an early teenager when I discovered Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and a bunch of people that are on a long list of artists. They were important to me, especially as an early adolescent.”
Source : "Madeleine Peyroux looks deep inside". Interview with Shanon Cook, www.cnn.com. August 19, 2009. 
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“An animal that is very abundant, before it gets extinct, it becomes rare. So you don't lose abundant animals. You always lose rare animals. Therefore, they're not perceived as a big loss.”
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“I try to eat how your mother wanted you to eat when you were young.”
Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
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“A woman well bred and well taught, furnished with the additional accomplishments of knowledge and behaviour, is a creature without comparison. Her society is the emblem of sublimer enjoyments, her person is angelic, and her conversation heavenly. She is all softness and sweetness, peace, love, wit, and delight. She is every way suitable to the sublimest wish, and the man that has such a one to his portion, has nothing to do but to rejoice in her, and be thankful.”
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“Why is it that even when you're trying your hardest not to get attached, something still sneaks up on you?”
Source : Claire Cook (2014). “Summer Blowout”, p.101, Marshbury Beach Books
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“A perfectly happy marriage? There is no such thing. There are strong marriages that can survive problems, but happiness is such a brief condition, interrupted by difficulties and plain, boring routine.”
Source : Ursula Hegi (2012). “Intrusions”, p.208, Simon and Schuster
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“I believe that every person has uniqueness - something that nobody else has.”
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“Imagine, a September 11 with weapons of mass destruction. It's not 3,000. It's tens of thousands of innocent men, women and children.”
