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Amy Ray
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: April 12
Composer
Mandolinist
Record Producer
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Songwriter
Decatur
Georgia
Amy Elizabeth Ray
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...and when I am negative, I will be negative only for as long as I have to be, until I can understand it, and then I will be positive...when I hate, I will turn my hatred into energy, when I am angry I will turn my anger into energy...and I will not be complacent.
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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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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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Your hatred is rooted in your fear, and your paranoia and insecurities, well they don't belong here.
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You can spend time self-identifying and figuring out what you are on that, but at some point, you just want to be who you are and not walk around telling people.
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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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We act empty and innocent but we are fueled by distortions of lives led in discontent trading misfortunes cause faith is one thing that is hard to deliver it feels funny being free.
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My personal feeling is that people need to be careful not to start over-analyzing and taking things apart and trying to be critical.
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When I'm writing, which is 8-9 months out of the year, I'm in a concerted writing pace, where I work 5 days a week for at least a few hours a day, maybe a little bit more. But I won't work for more than 2 hours at a time. I'll work for a couple hours and take a break.
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The impossibility and hypocrisy of a situation where kids are expected to be honest but are judged and alienated from their community because of it should not escape us.
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I feel like there are a lot of people doing a lot of hard work. I think it's too early to judge, and I don't think the gay community is in any way falling short.
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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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ahhhh...organic and rich like good soil... makes me want to listen and hear it grow. the songs are honest and dimensional. it's music to my ears.
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I think the musicians I play with solo do a certain thing that the musicians we play with with the Indigo Girls don't do. It's just a different thing. And it sort of steers my writing in some ways.
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An idealist who couldn't cope becomes cynical.
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The best days I have are usually days where I'm out in the woods and something happens, like I see an amazing animal like a fox, or I get a glimpse of a wild pig or something that I never see. Or crazy things happen.
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It's all right if things don't change today. We're gonna keep doing what we do. The world can either catch up or not.
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I'm not really thinking about what I'm talking about or what I'm willing to achieve. I'm just kind of letting it come out, recording it.
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Yeah, we appreciate our women followng...and I love women. I mean, I just really love women. I love men, too, but you know it's like sometimes you look up from what you're doing and you go, 'I love women.' There's just something about them and so, just celebrate it.
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The only thing I have going on at a personal level is just the way I knew I was gay and I knew what that meant inside me, but the gender aspect of who I am came later.
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