Loudon Wainwright III Quotes

If you're 28 and singing about being over the hill, you're pretending. When you're 67 and singing about it, you know what you're talking about.

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• I'm not a power person. I like everyone to be on an equal footing.

  

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• I started as an actor. I started directing because Steppenwolf needed another strong director.

  

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• True stories, autobiographical stories, like some novels, begin long ago, before the acts in the account, before the birth of some of the people in the tale.

  

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• I made sacrifices willingly; it was what I did best.

  

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• As happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!

  

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• Steve Jobs is the most epic entrepreneur of all time. He served as a guiding light for any emerging businessperson who wanted to learn how things should get done. He'll be looked at as one of the best business leaders of all time, and certainly one of the best tech entrepreneurs.

  

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• We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be.

  

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• I think it's important that things are flawed.

  

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• Acting offers me an outlet. Here is the perfect opportunity to spend fleeting moments becoming an entirely different person; to experience a character entirely unlike myself, but to also make such a character a part of me. There is no routine here; there is no boredom.

  

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• I have been extremely lucky with reviewers and critics throughout my career.

  

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• Any smart executive understands that to find the best talent she has to explore new territory that lies beyond familiar geography. That applies not only to gender, but also to race, religion, background and age.

  

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• Everything must be carried out in extreme sobriety.

  

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• I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.

  

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• I used to come up with these crazy jobs to try and provoke my parents but they said, 'You can be anything you want.' So I was like, 'I want to be a garbage man' and they were like 'That's OK, we'll still love you!'

  

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• 'Love Aaj Kal' is not really a road movie, but it does involve some travel.

  

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• Although you should never mention your premise in the dialogue of your play, the audience must know what the message is. And whatever it is, you must prove it.

  

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• I really don't like talking about diets.

  

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• If you're 28 and singing about being over the hill, you're pretending. When you're 67 and singing about it, you know what you're talking about.

  

  Loudon Wainwright III
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  • Singing
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