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I grew up listening to everything, and when I got signed to a record deal out of Nashville, that was my introduction to what was happening in country music.
Mary Chapin Carpenter
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Mary Chapin Carpenter
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: February 21
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About age ten, we moved from the place where I was born, moved overseas.
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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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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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We all have two lives. The one we are given and the one we create.
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A dreamer born is a hero bred.
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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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I feel like politics have always informed what I do. If you know anything about my music, you know I've never been shy about stating how I vote.
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