Lucinda Williams Quotes
Sometimes I might borrow something from a song I started a long time ago and see if I can grab something.
Quotes to Explore
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else.
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It's always hard, when introducing readers to a new world/set of rules, not to lay it all out manual-style in the opening chapters but make sure to put the action and the characters at the front. If people don't become invested in them and in the story, the world in which it's set will become a burden.
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I congratulate you, my fellow-citizens, upon the high state of prosperity to which the goodness of Divine Providence has conducted our common country.
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Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.
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It angers me when sustainability gets used as a buzz word. For 90 percent of the world, sustainability is a matter of survival.
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I want to show people that there's a side of myself other than just the outrageous comedian.
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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
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In my role as a spokesperson for Amnesty International U.S.A. and as a supporter of various charitable causes including Unlock Iran, a campaign to release prisoners of conscience in Iran, I have never been faced with the threat of intimidation or arrest.
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Focus on remedies, not faults.
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In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.
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I came to America to make it my home, and I did.
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Family is very important to me because that is the footprint we perpetuate. That is, the ripple in the water when the rock first impacts the pool, and it is those waves, that energy that one produces, that determines our direction.
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You don't necessarily have to be religious to pray.
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I never put out a history, I put out a dramatic history.
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Bathrooms are, on a square foot basis, the most expensive room in the house to renovate. If you want to test your heart's fitness, try shopping for simple bathroom faucets. Add in the cost of the required valves, mixers and trims, and you may need reviving when you see the tally!
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Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement.
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As society changes, as politics change, as people change, certain songs still seem to resonate.
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The nightingales are sobbing in The orchards of our mothers, And hearts that we broke long ago Have long been breaking others; Tears are round, the sea is deep: Roll them overboard and sleep.
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I had just 15 days to work on my body for the climactic fight of 'Bodyguard.' And I would work on every muscle of my body two/three times a week. I would have developed a superb body if I had three months, but squeezing it into 15 days can be harmful. Also, as you grow older, your metabolic rate slows down.
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Fascism denies that numbers, as such, can direct human society. It denies that numbers can govern by means of periodical consultations: It asserts the unavoidable fruitful and beneficent inequality of men who cannot be leveled by any such mechanical and extrinsic device as universal suffrage.
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I'll probably never put out another album because I'm a tough critic of my work, and I don't think I could come up to those standards any more.
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I love writing comedy.
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Sometimes I might borrow something from a song I started a long time ago and see if I can grab something.
