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There's two lanes running down this road which ever side your on, accounts for where you want to go or what you're running from.

Mary Chapin Carpenter

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Mary Chapin Carpenter
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: February 21
Recording Artist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
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Princeton
New Jersey
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So I came home and I had a resume and everything, but the only job experience I had was just playing in bars and clubs on my summers off. So, I was temping and stuff during the day and playing music at night.
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I was a liberal arts junkie and I figured, well, I'll go work for somebody somewhere. All I knew was that I was going to have to come home and figure it out.
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So I think that if I do feel more freedom right now in my career, it's not so much because I have less at stake but more a sense that I've learned more.
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Was it a light only she could see? A gypsy's spell? A mystery?
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I take my chances. I can't cling to remorse or regret.
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Dreamland is a book, but it's my song in book form. It's translated itself into a different medium.
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I certainly felt the desire to reach as many people as I could I wanted to make the most of this opportunity, sure. But I wouldn't call it pressure the way we're thinking of it now.
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We all have two lives. The one we are given and the one we create.
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You know, that single girl life and that sense of isolation - that doesn't leave you just like that. And that's what that song is about. I remember that, and that is imprinted on me, that sense.
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Think I'll flip a coin, I'm a winner either way Mmmmmm, I feel lucky today
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The bedrock thing of country music is, it's about storytelling. I feel like I was able to find a niche because I connected to that in some way.
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Life is never a straight line - it's peaks and valleys. Why would you want to be the same person every day of your life?
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I was really young, but I can't say that I wrote much of anything. I liked to scribble I thought of it as that. But I was playing guitar and ukulele when I was in second grade.
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In this world you've a soul for a compass And a heart for a pair of wings There's a star on the far horizon Rising bright in an azure sky For the rest of the time that you're given Why walk when you can fly?
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I've crossed lines of word and wire and both have cut me deep. I've been frozen out and I've been on fire, and the tears are mine to weep.
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I love to write songs and sing them, and I didn't really know much more than that. Somehow it's gotten to the point where a friend can say, It's very you, and that made me feel good.
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I don't think you need to dumb down to a child, you merely have to be clear, you know?
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