Lucinda Williams Quotes
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I was vegetarian for a long time, and in the last four years I started eating chicken and fish. I feel like it really built up my strength a lot.
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As a young man you don't notice at all that you were, after all, badly affected. For years afterwards, at least ten years, I kept getting these dreams, in which I had to crawl through ruined houses, along passages I could hardly get through.
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Most actors and actresses are performative as people.
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You can't be a victim and heal.
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I am a Facebook voyeur. I feel bad about it because I never put anything on there, but I find it fun to sit there and watch peoples' lives go by. Or whatever lives they're presenting.
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It would be judicious to act with magnanimity towards a prostrate foe.
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I only photograph myself at poignant moments in my life as a check of where I am and how large my thighs are.
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When India got independence, entrepreneurs were seen as a bad lot, as people who would exploit.
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Directing feels great; I'm really happy to be doing this.
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I never had to look for confidence because I just wore what I wanted to wear. I would never wear anything to offend my husband or my mother, but outside of that, I always figured, I hope I'm not a rebel, and I hope everybody liked it. And if they didn't like it, it really was not going to disturb me because it was their problem, not mine.
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One should also remember that the U.S. is the biggest exporter of torture weapons in the world, though the U.K. is not far behind in the league table. We never stopped, even under Robin Cook's supposedly ethical foreign policy.
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Well, I motorcycle, I hunt, fish, I do all that. I keep busy. I'm never bored. I've never been bored.
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The way to build billion dollar companies is to first build something people love. There isn't really a shortcut there.
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Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.
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The trouble with most comedians who try to do satire is that they are essentially brash, noisy and indelicate people who have to use a sledge hammer to smash a butterfly.
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Someone once told me that religion is like a knife: You can stab someone with it, or you can slice bread with it.
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Funny is not a color. Being black is only good from the time you get from the curtain to the microphone.
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Economic man and sensual man are not suppressible.
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I never give orders. I sell my ideas to my associates if I can. I accept their judgment if they convince me, as they frequently do, that I am wrong. I prefer to appeal to the intelligence of a man rather than attempt to exercise authority over him.
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Every day is a great day for hockey.
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It is necessity and not pleasure that compels us.
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I think love is often a bit selfish, even before we had consumerism. That's not new. A consumer society gives you the illusion of having massive amounts of choice and saddles you with the freedom of being able to dabble in that choice. And at the same time, you are left with the tyranny of self-doubt and uncertainty about whether you made the right choice.
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The closer I get back to being who I really am, the stronger the music gets.
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There's so many other things to write about than unrequited love.
