Lucinda Williams Quotes
I am trying to get right with God. I'm sort of making a statement about the excessiveness.

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I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: 'Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar.'
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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I never thought of myself as a writer about religion until a religion came after me.
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We should always remember that it is by His invitation that we come to His holy house, the temple of the Lord. We should respond to His invitation by being worthy, by being prepared, and by having the temple as a priority in our lives. While in the temple we should act as if we are in His holy presence.
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Personally, I am not so affected by my environment. What I build in the creative process is not necessarily connected to what I am physically in contact with. I am always observing everything, but it will not necessarily have a direct impact on what I do.
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Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.
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If you want to be happy, make others happy!
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You know, it's always good to have seen a track before, just to kind of know where the little bumps are here and there, and just the general feel for the size.
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One of the things we found out as we filmed with people who dealt with chimps, and with all animals, and it's really incredible, is their levels of intelligence that we don't recognize right away.
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This is how to avoid re-creating painful situations: Take the time to discover your real intention before you act. If it is to change someone or the world so that you will feel safe or better about yourself, don't act on it, because it is an intention of fear and can create only painful consequences.
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My father has a general rule. He says if I haven't done it in real life I shouldn't do it on-screen.
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A man is as alive as he can communicate.
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Don't romanticise your 'vocation.' You can either write good sentences or you can't. There is no 'writer's lifestyle.' All that matters is what you leave on the page.
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There are charms made only for distant admiration.
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I've been asked to interview for many managing jobs, and I never said yes because I was never serious about it, and I thought it would be wrong to go through that process.
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I began taking pictures in the natural world to be able to show people what I was experiencing when I climbed and explored in Yosemite in the High Sierra.
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I am not a fashion freak!
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I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as a wish to escape the feared and hated drudgery of normal work.
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What is it like to be a bat? What is it like for a bat to be a bat?
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Trying to read our DNA is like trying to understand software code - with only 90% of the code riddled with errors. It's very difficult in that case to understand and predict what that software code is going to do.
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God is displeased at the diffidence of souls who love Him sincerely and whom He Himself loves.
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To procrastinate obedience is to disobey God.
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All is foreseen, but freedom of choice is given.
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I am trying to get right with God. I'm sort of making a statement about the excessiveness.