Loudon Wainwright III Quotes
I wasn't in a lot of rock and roll bands. I was in jug bands and things when I was in school.
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America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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I just wonder where I was when the talent was being given out, like George Benson, Kenny Burrell, Eric Clapton... oh, there's many more! I wouldn't want to be like them, you understand, but I'd like to be equal, if you will.
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We always see abhorrent behavior and say why, but then we get mad when somebody tries to answer.
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When you commit to something and have fun with it, it appreciates you, the gift, and it starts to help you out.
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Self-doubt kills talent.
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It was very unusual, because normally the producer requests the test to determine whether they want to hire someone or not. Olivia was concerned about playing a seventeen year old.
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We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.
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But there will come a time and a place to give back, and each individual will recognize that time and place.
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In my case, symptoms began to appear when I was only 57. In fact, the doctors believe early-onset Alzheimer's has a strong genetic predictor, and that it may have been progressing for some years before I was diagnosed.
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Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting.
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You can blow on the dice all you want, but whether they come up 'seven' is still a function of random luck.
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Illegal downloading, digital cheating, and cutting and pasting other people's stuff may be easy, but that doesn't make those activities right.
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Television shows and movies that are all white, I can't watch them. They totally alienate me.
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I'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death.
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There are a lot of countries, oil-producing countries, that aren't very democratic, but supported by the United States. That's odd.
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Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.
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I always have a million things going on at once, but I try to put my energy into the most immediate need.
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The sooner I get into the Hall of Fame the better.
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In my early 20s, I was a big fan of Theodore Dreiser and might be one of the few people on the planet who have voluntarily read all his novels.
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The devadasis have a multilayered story, a story in which poverty, deprivation and injustice against women is central - but what has happened to them is absolutely an outcome of imperialism and the impact of British rule in India.
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There's so many things that can go wrong in the execution of a project like a television show or a movie, so many little elements, any number of things, all the way to marketing - like they could market it poorly and nobody finds it and down it goes.
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I wasn't in a lot of rock and roll bands. I was in jug bands and things when I was in school.
