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I've actually performed at Gay Pride in Atlanta three times in my career. I've always had a large gay following, particularly in the lesbian community. I am grateful for that. To me, it means my music transcends categories. It also means that I'm a cute girl singing a rock song in an alto voice! — Jennifer Nettles

An idyllic period of my existence was when I had a den attached to my home ... a writing den, and no one had access to that unless they had their own special visa, applied for weeks in advance. — Wole Soyinka

If you would be pungent, be brief. — Robert Southey

I don't need luck,' said Alex, 'I've got operational authority.' More sensation, laughter and questions. 'Authority to blow stuff up?' one of the freighter crew asked, cheekily. 'This is a warship,' Alex responded, without emotion. 'Authority to blow stuff up is in the definition.' Then, — S.J. MacDonald

I am certainly suffering from a modicum of performance anxiety. — George Murray

There is no act, however virtuous, for which ingenuity may not find some bad motive. — Thomas Jefferson

How many people ask you to come share their life? — Janet Fitch

Most of the time I liked being in charge of my life, thrived on it, in fact. But occasionally, when I was tired or unhappy. I'd find myself thinking how nice it would be to let someone else run the show, at least for a while. — Alice Steinbach

Too many people out there tell us what we can and cannot do but ... they don't know who we are, what's put in us. — Alex Rogers

This is a world of process, not a world of things. — Margaret J. Wheatley

We smile at each other and I feel that wonderful sensation of being known by someone. — Jenny Han

Angels live no place, as God lives no place. They live in the space of eternity, in the center of our hearts, and sometimes I think we each serve as the channels and angels of God, touched by wings of silence, pushed to angelic acts ... — Sophy Burnham