Lucinda Williams Quotes
I'm trying to learn how to tap into the power of my own being. I know it sounds corny.
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I loved getting to Chagrin Falls, being by the falls; what a cute place it is.
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I'm a lot less concerned with Bill Clinton's escapades decades ago than I am with Hillary Clinton's consistently wrong record when it comes to foreign policy, when it comes to domestic policy.
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The U.S. won the majors 29-11 in the 1980s. That's when Tom Watson and Jack Nicklaus were carrying the ball, and when Seve Ballesteros was becoming a Brit in the minds of English and Scottish journalists.
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Western enthusiasm for democracy stops when those opposed to its policies are elected to office.
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September 11 was a wake-up call to me. I don't want to contribute to the hate in any shape or form. I now regret in the past being silent about what I have heard in the Islamic discourse and being part of that with my own anger.
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Who am I, if I'm not this singer with big high notes? I identify with my voice. But I'm more than just the acrobatics.
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The problem is not simply that the Singularity represents the passing of humankind from center stage, but that it contradicts our most deeply held notions of being.
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The better I am at observing moments in life, the better I'll be at showing them in my acting.
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I am really happy to see the number of entrepreneurs in India - not only because of the ideas they have but also because of the passion at which their ideas are put across.
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It's true that I'm not ashamed of my body. I'm comfortable, and I think more women should be more confident.
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Shaming people into being virtuous doesn't change behaviour.
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There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.
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I'm just so grateful for the 10 years that I had in Sri Lanka when it was in the middle of a war and I was getting shot at, because now and again I remember glimpses of those times, and I just go, 'Wow, I'll never, ever see that again in my life. And I'm never gonna feel that, and I'm never gonna feel for a human being like that.'
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In the '70s I was in exile; every time I went back I wondered if they'd take my passport away.
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I'm almost completely without family and it's a very odd feeling in life. I have no children.
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I never thought I would write a memoir at age 40... but I did have this unique place in history.
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We are all human beings, and our nationality is simply an accident of birth.
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I think the main lesson that I have learned is that a good scientist is a humble scientist who is open-minded to listen to other scientists when they discover something.
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You're never really cancer-free and I should have known that.
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I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.
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Most Kikuyu marriages were arranged on the basis of what is described by anthropologists as the bride price.
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At least I want to be making films that are somehow born out of me that are stories I want to tell. The challenge is figuring out how to do it where you can make them personal, yet still deliver to an audience a film experience that is satisfying and emotional, and that's what I'm trying to do.
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I remember trying to explain the class system to a Canadian friend when we started at RADA. The funniest thing was when I told her what bonfire night is all about. It's quite dark when you start breaking it down.
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I'm trying to learn how to tap into the power of my own being. I know it sounds corny.
