Lucinda Williams Quotes
It's really about living in your head... just looking out at the world, then going back into your head and tossing around a lot of ideas and coming out with something interesting to say.
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There are lots of people who haven't been to drama school who have great talent and can be discovered.
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You don't go out and change your gender for a television show, O.K.? It ain't happening. I don't care who you are.
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I could go out to five parties a day if I wanted to. I don't. I have attachments to my wife and kids - and about 20 pieces of art.
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I don't want to talk about negative, dark things. The only thing I've got against stuff like Marilyn Manson is, they make unbelievable videos and unbelievable images.
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In some ways, with the security challenges this country has faced, we have had to put in rules and regulations for business to be able to sustain their growth and create jobs.
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There was a time I desperately needed for the world to know that I was no category guy. My whole goal in life was to reach that certain success where people will say, 'Hey, that guy can do anything. He's the Evel Knievel of music. He's jumping over 15 buses!'
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A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
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I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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IBM, Microsoft, the profit they made was larger than the top four banks in China put together... But where did the money go?
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I'm not more or less conscious than any other rapper out there.
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The falsification of scientific data or analysis is always a serious matter.
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Crime novels, it has been said, show the human psyche under pressure.
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All the audience cares about is what you put up on the screen.
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I don't think anyone really is interested in reading about my emotional state. It's not even interesting to me.
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I think if you are creative then it's an unstoppable thing. It just keeps coming throughout your entire life.
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The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it.
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Make no mistake, adolescence is a war. No one gets out unscathed.
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I believe in music because it has the power of change.
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Peter Jennings came to us and said to make a PSA, 'Let's Talk About AIDS.' But I was naive about how the virus is contracted - until Magic Johnson came out. I'd stereotyped it, thinking it was a gay disease, a white man's disease.
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Art is thought, and thought only gives the world an appearance of order to anyone weak enough to be convinced by its show.
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My views about the safety of Jews in the world have not been changed by the work on the Dreyfus affair or, for that matter, by the work I did on Franz Kafka for the book on him I published a year before the Dreyfus book appeared.
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A man who has been in another world does not come back unchanged. One can't put the difference into words. When the man is a friend it may become painful: the old footing is not easy to recover.
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It's really about living in your head... just looking out at the world, then going back into your head and tossing around a lot of ideas and coming out with something interesting to say.
