Loudon Wainwright III Quotes

When you start your career, you have to figure out a way to separate yourself from the pack. So I went for a kind of preppy, psycho-killer look: I had short hair, grey flannel pants, and a button-down shirt. I think it worked, because nobody else was looking that way at that time.

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• We want our students to graduate from high school, but we want them to graduate with a plan, whether it's college or career.

  

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• I worked with Lukas Haas a long time ago, when he was younger, and he was wonderful.

  

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• I remember the first time my mind was blown by an actor was Tim Curry, because I loved 'Clue' when I was a kid, and then I was watching the movie 'Legend,' and the Devil suddenly smiles, and I was like, 'It's the same guy!' It was a total Keyser Soeze moment.

  

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• I was hoping, actually, that being on the other side of the camera in a scary movie, see how it's filmed and maybe you won't be as scared next time you watch one... didn't really work out! Because I know it's fake, but I just get so into it.

  

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• For an actor, a Mamet play is definitely on the list of things you hope to be a part of before it's time to exit.

  

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• Most people don't really like to pose. It is difficult to get them to be present and relaxed under this kind of molecular scrutiny. I want them to understand I'm not simply painting them: I am painting them within a precise moment in time, as a shadow moves across their eyebrows. Then it is gone. The moment is over.

  

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• I've been influenced by some of the greatest designers. Charles Eames. And Bruno Munari in the '50s in Italy - when they had to retool the industry of war into an industry to help society. In a way, I'm influenced by designers that were there at a radical time of change.

  

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• I'm not a tall man. I'm just a hair under 5'5.

  

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• If you're having a down time at school and people are bullying you, they don't know you. They don't have the right to have an opinion on you.

  

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• The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

  

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• First time I walked out on the Opry stage, Vince Gill was there. He kind of 'daddied' me through the whole thing. My knees were knocking. I walked out there, and I was literally shaking. They say it's the spirits or the ghosts. And out of respect for that whole establishment, I was really really nervous.

  

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• Well I could have been just a writer. I had been a hair dresser. I could have stuck with that.

  

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• I don't just act to pay my rent. I really like doing it, so I get frustrated when I don't get to do it all the time, so short films are a really great way to be doing it and working with your friends, working on smaller, more specific things without limiting yourself in other ways.

  

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• I had a successful career: not necessarily a Hall of Fame career, but a successful one.

  

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• A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

  

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• The future is keeping you out of the present time.

  

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• If I waited for inspiration every time I sat down to write a song I probably would be a plumber today.

  

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• You know what it's like to feel anxious - it's horrible feeling anxious. It's stressful having that feeling, having butterflies in your stomach, even for a day, and you don't sleep at night.

  

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• The way we designed self-driving payroll, it ends payroll as an independent system that you're entering information in by hand.

  

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• In most companies, the formal hierarchy is a matter of public record - it's easy to discover who's in charge of what. By contrast, natural leaders don't appear on any organization chart.

  

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• I know I'm writing better now than I ever did for adults because I'm writing for an audience who know that they don't know everything.

  

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• When you start your career, you have to figure out a way to separate yourself from the pack. So I went for a kind of preppy, psycho-killer look: I had short hair, grey flannel pants, and a button-down shirt. I think it worked, because nobody else was looking that way at that time.

  

  Loudon Wainwright III
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  • Hair