Quote by Edie Brickell
A lot of the songs start with an image. I was sitting there playin

A lot of the songs start with an image. I was sitting there playing the guitar and I pictured this old, dirty green car, with the window rolled down, in the hot, hot, hot Texas heat, and this beautiful woman I knew when I was a kid sitting behind the wheel, looking out at me. – Edie Brickell

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Becoming a mom made me more contentious about expressing my true taste. – Edie Brickell

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mom
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My grandmother was the greatest cook in the world. She could just go in there, the whole kitchen would look like a tornado hit it and then shed come out with the best food. Then shed sit at the table and she wouldnt eat! – Edie Brickell

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Food
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No matter how famous and established they were or however blessed they were with great songs or long careers, if they lived alone, they lived alone. Thats not the way I wanted to live prior to the tour or after. – Edie Brickell

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Ive got Aspergers syndrome and Im not a very good people person, so Ive always been more comfortable around machinery. Not in a weird way – I dont want to marry my car or anything stupid like that! – Gary Numan

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Im gonna be the best dad that ever lived. Ill have a ranch with a race car track and a golf course. – Jeremy London

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Most people have no concept of how an automatic transmission works, yet they know how to drive a car. You dont have to study physics to understand the laws of motion to drive a car. You dont have to understand any of this stuff to use Macintosh. – Steve Jobs

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I rememeber one time we were getting ready to go to South America and everything was packed up and in the car ready to go and I hid and I was crying because I really did not want to go, I wanted to play. I did not want to go. – Michael Jackson

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Im finding, as I get older, that Im not much of a believer in redemption. I mean, I believe in redemption in real life – redemption does happen, and its cool when it does – but I find myself getting leery of my desire for it in stories (especially my own). – George Saunders

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A lot of victims, for example, have become addicted to alcohol and drugs. It seems to me that the churchs healing ministry is going to be enhanced through this in much broader strokes. Thats good, its all positive. – Roger Mahony

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Civilizations have been founded and maintained on theories which refused to obey facts. – Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw, 1969

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