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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Find your own specific voice in filmmaking and go for it. Either people will get it or they won't and that's what it's all about.
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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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We have a battle over the fundamentals of our country.
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If you have two steaks, one that's an inch thick, one that's 2 inches thick, how much longer does the thicker one need to cook? It's four times as long. It goes roughly like the square. How come cookbooks don't tell you that?
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I have said that propaganda, misinformation, and disinformation have always been part of political warfare. Social media and other new platforms have given it a new life and reach through which the fake news phenomenon can reach everywhere.
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Ghosts cannot be put on the witness stand, or have their fingerprints taken. They are completely proof against proof.
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Seeing the similarity to oneself, one should not use violence or have it used.
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There's so many other things to write about than unrequited love.
