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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It would be judicious to act with magnanimity towards a prostrate foe.
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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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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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I love talking to interesting people - people like O.J. Simpson, Andretti... I love champions. A champion has something special about him.
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It's hard to practice compassion when we're struggling with our authenticity or when our own worthiness is off-balance.
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Do not allow your sorrow or your rage to become hostility toward people on the basis of their ethnicity or their religious views. That is unacceptable; it is out of bounds, and if you break the law, we will prosecute you for it.
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Rise with the hour for which you were made.
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I hope that other women can benefit from my experience. Cancer is still a word that strikes fear into people’s hearts, producing a deep sense of powerlessness. But today it is possible to find out through a blood test whether you are highly susceptible to breast and ovarian cancer, and then take action... It is my hope that they, too, will be able to get gene tested, and that if they have a high risk they, too, will know that they have strong options. Life comes with many challenges. The ones that should not scare us are the ones we can take on and take control of.
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I try not to look back on my life and be regretful.
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There's hardly any governmental censorship in Korea.
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There's so many other things to write about than unrequited love.
