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At some point I was hanging around with the Butchies - a band I ended up playing with a lot - and it just brought out this thing in me... and it felt very different from the Indigo Girls.
Amy Ray
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Amy Ray
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: April 12
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Amy Elizabeth Ray
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I sit down and draw from my lyric book. I sit down and start looking through it and see if there is anything that strikes me that I've written.
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Your actions will follow you full circle round,the higher the leap, I said, the harder the ground!
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If you're a teacher, for instance, there are ways to have positive representation of gay people in the classroom. Making sure that, historically, people are noted and archived, and that kids are getting just positive images of people who are gay.
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When people say, 'Nothing's coming to me,' they usually don't like what's coming to them.
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