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" Life happens, and I write about it wherever I am. "
Melissa Etheridge
Write
Am
Happens
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" I think being a parent is knowing how to love. Sometimes love is discipline, sometimes it's humor, sometimes it's listening. "
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" I can look at cancer as a disease that picks me out and 'why me,' or I can look at it through love and say, 'This is a wake-up call. This is my body telling me: 'Hey, you're out of balance here. It's time to get in line with yourself.' "
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" I think I've been on a path ever since I was born, a path of high stress. I put myself, my career, it was a big old juicy carrot right in front of me for all of my life. "
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" We all want to judge; it's an intrinsic part of our society and human nature. I'm not surprised that talent shows are hits, but I'm glad some of them aren't so brutal. "
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" I've worked since I was 11 years old, playing music and following the dream, and shaking and moving and doing it. And then, you have cancer and it was like 'Ooooohh.' It was like a big eraser. It was the only thing in my life that had ever made me just stop. "
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" I'm for gay marriage, because I'm for gay divorce. "
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" There is no fear when you choose love. The more you choose love, the more love is in your life. It gets easier and easier. "
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" Cancer's like the ultimate excuse. Who's gonna say, 'Oh, no, you have to show up for this one?' 'Hey, I got cancer. I can't be there.' It's the ultimate eraser. "
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" I stand before you a totally healthy person. "
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" There's a point when your tape of life runs off the reel and there's this stillness of your own - I got to know myself. "
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" In country music, there are certain female artists, like Gretchen Wilson, where you're going to find lesbians because they're responding to that more aggressive side. "
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Aggressive
Country
" Video is a funny thing. It's one thing to be an artist, singer-songwriter, and use words and create pictures in people's minds. And then be asked to do video for it, to actually give a certain visual for your song. "
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Artist
Funny
" I believed in Obama for social issues. I believe he brought our nation together and healed our racial divide. Martin Luther King's dream came true when he was elected. That's huge. "
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Together
" Christmas comes during a season when the Earth is in its darkest time. It's a holiday for the family and for everyone. "
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Earth
Family
" People ask me, 'Is being a parent the be-all, end-all?' And I say, 'Oh, it definitely is up to the person, and it is difficult, it can be very difficult, and it can be extremely healing.' That's what I have found, that the children are mirrors. Everyone is a mirror, but children especially because they're day and night and all day long. "
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Healing
Day
Children
" There's been so many different types of musicals, and it's a funny genre because there's a fine line between clever and stupid. It really takes a genius to know how to do it. "
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Stupid
Funny
Genius
" I tell people that anything that could ever happen to you on stage has happened to me. My clothes have fallen off. I've fallen off the stage. I've gotten sick - anything. "
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Sick
People
Me
" I don't have a bucket list because it is my dedication to live every day of my life there. I don't have a bucket list because I'm doing it that day. I don't want to go to bed and say, 'Oh, I wish I had done this.' "
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Day
Life
" Realizing I was gay was a long sort of waking up. "
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Up
Waking Up
" Our great Constitution challenges us to grow constantly. "
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Great
Challenges
" I've sold my soul for freedom. It's lonely but it's sweet. "
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" I've been a rock star since you were very young. But I've never encountered anything as powerful as cancer. "
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" I write songs for people who drive in cars. I really do. "
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People
" I'm exploring the maturity, the wisdom that just comes from having gone around the sun 50 times. My experience is, 'Oh, I'm never really going to get it right. I'm never going to get it done. But that's not the point here.' The point is the journey. "
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Done
Experience
" I'm very fortunate that I have a wonderful family around me and loved ones. "
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Family
Me
" Your own personal health is your own personal choice, all the way down the line. "
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" I have always loved Broadway. "
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Always
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