Lucinda Williams Quotes

There's so many other things to write about than unrequited love.

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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.

  

  Laura Wilkinson
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• 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.

  

  Otto Dix
  • Man
  • Dreams
  • Young Man

• Most actors and actresses are performative as people.

  

  Zoe Lister-Jones
  • People
  • Most

• You can't be a victim and heal.

  

  A. J. Langer
  • You
  • Victim
  • Heal

• 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.

  

  Eddie Kaye Thomas
  • People
  • Live
  • Facebook

• 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.

  

  Yahoo Serious
  • People
  • Voice
  • Filmmaking

• It would be judicious to act with magnanimity towards a prostrate foe.

  

  Zachary Taylor
  • Act
  • Would
  • Judicious

• I only photograph myself at poignant moments in my life as a check of where I am and how large my thighs are.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Life
  • Moments
  • Photograph

• When India got independence, entrepreneurs were seen as a bad lot, as people who would exploit.

  

  Nandan Nilekani
  • People
  • Bad
  • Independence

• Directing feels great; I'm really happy to be doing this.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Great
  • Happy
  • Doing

• 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.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Mother
  • Hope
  • Confidence

• 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.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • World
  • Remember
  • Ethical

• Well, I motorcycle, I hunt, fish, I do all that. I keep busy. I'm never bored. I've never been bored.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Bored
  • Busy
  • Fish

• The way to build billion dollar companies is to first build something people love. There isn't really a shortcut there.

  

  Sam Altman
  • People
  • Way
  • Build

• Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.

  

  Ovid
  • Women
  • Same
  • Just

• 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.

  

  Imogene Coca
  • People
  • Try
  • Butterfly

• Someone once told me that religion is like a knife: You can stab someone with it, or you can slice bread with it.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Me
  • Religion
  • Bread

• Funny is not a color. Being black is only good from the time you get from the curtain to the microphone.

  

  Flip Wilson
  • Time
  • Good
  • Black

• I was born in St. Louis; I lived there for three weeks and then my father graduated from St. Louis University, so we all got in the car and split. I don't really remember much. I grew up in Connecticut most of my life and then four years in Germany. My father worked for a helicopter company, so we went over there.

  

  Kevin Nealon
  • Life
  • Up
  • Remember

• I always tell writers that it's good to have an area of expertise. It's a really practical answer, I know, but know about science or about sports or about medicine, so you can work as a science writer or a sports writer. Don't just know about yourself.

  

  Meghan Daum
  • Good
  • Work
  • Science

• Primitive societies without religion have never been found.

  

  William Dean Howells
  • Found
  • Primitive

• I love doing theater. Despite the fact that out of theater, film, and TV, theater is the hardest thing to do. It's the least paid, and we all have these bills that we have to pay.

  

  Joe Morton

• It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • People
  • Fashion
  • Period

• There's so many other things to write about than unrequited love.

  

  Lucinda Williams