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“You have to love yourself or you'll never be able to accept compliments from anyone”
Source : "Dean And Britta's Dean Wareham". Interview with Maggie Serote, www.avclub.com. June 4, 2009.
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“I started singing Folksongs with my mother when I was 6 years old. We sang at Folk festivals and concerts and schools. There was always music being played either on record, Jazz and Folk, by musician friends of my mother. I took to singing very early, I believe it has been a Gift I was born with.”
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“Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew.”
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“My music teacher offered twittering madrigals and something about how, in Italy, in Italy, the oranges hang on the tree. He treated me - the humiliation of it - as a soprano.These, by contrast, are the six elements of a Sacred Harp alto: rage, darkness, motherhood, earth, malice, and sex. Once you feel it, you can always do it. You know where to go for it, though it will cost you.”
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“Sex -- the great inequality, the great miscalculator, the great Irritator.”
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“My mom was a great cook and great baker all her life.”
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“The object of punishment is to... lift the man up; to stamp out his bad nature and wicked disposition.”
Source : Letter to U.S. Attorney General Augustus Hill Garland, May 27, 1885.
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“A man's ideal woman is the one he couldn't get.”