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Southern gentility is evocative to me.

Rosanne Cash

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Rosanne Cash
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: May 24
Recording Artist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Memphis
Tennessee
Gentility
Evocative
Southern

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Being in Vietnam changed him [Johnny Cash] fundamentally. He was devastated when we went into Iraq.
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Once your kids get older and get out of the house, it's not like it stops. They're on the phone with me every day I'm intimately involved in their problems.
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With time the unbearable becomes shocking, becomes sad, and finally becomes poignant.
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Documenting one's life in the midst of living it is a strange pursuit.
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War is idiocy. We live on a small, small planet, and what we do to others is what we do to ourselves
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The thing that scares me most is the shift from serving the people to exercising power and with it, this attendant narcissism. Sarah Palin is a great example of someone that just stirs the pot for the sake of the attention.
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