I kept thinking, I went to college and I have to get a real job. - Mary Chapin Carpenter

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I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever; I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart.

Mary Chapin Carpenter

I kept thinking, I went to college and I have to get a real job.

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It's a marvelous feeling when someone says I want to do this song of yours because they've connected to it. That's what I'm after.

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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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We all have two lives. The one we are given and the one we create.

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Carry with you maps and string, flashlights, friends who make you sing, and stars to help you find your place, music, hope, and amazing grace.

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I've never. . . when I was having songs on the airwaves, and that sort of thing, I never felt a sense of pressure anywhere except from myself, to do things the way I wanted to do them; to feel authentic; to feel like I was presenting my true self to the world.

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