I've joked that I would have either become schizophrenic or an actress, but as an actress you can do both.

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• Carlene Carter:

  Working with Mellencamp, I made new fans, people that may have never heard of me. They may have hea

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• Carlene Carter:

  Eccentricity has never been discouraged in our family.

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• Carlene Carter:

  I feel the audience are friends that have come to see us. That was always how we look on it in the

• Carlene Carter:

  I never, by any regard, ever denied any part of my family roots.

• Carlene Carter:

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• Carlene Carter:

  I have great stories. I am going to write a book.

• Carlene Carter:

  I like to do one thing at a time and do it to the best of my ability.