Lucinda Williams Quotes
I write the songs, go in and record them, then I listen to everything and decide how it all fits together.
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I think everyone who goes to see a 'Bond' movie expects to be impressed by the look and the locations chosen. Certainly I was when I grew up watching them, and I don't think that's changed in the last 50 years.
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The experience of being in space didn't change my perspective of myself or of the planet or of life. I had no spiritual experience.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.
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Though politics is by nature divisive, surely we all can agree that foster children need stability, safety, education, opportunity - and love.
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I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.
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Everyone should learn to tango in Argentina before they die.
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I love diving into different skins, skins that make me feel deep emotions.
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That's one of my real goals is to keep theater in my life.
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I'm not into solos, I'm into lyrics.
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I live in a bus and go from place to place and sometimes feel very detached from what's going on.
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Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.
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The blockchain does one thing: It replaces third-party trust with mathematical proof that something happened.
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I write the novels that are possible for me to write, not that ones I think will come across in a certain light.
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French people are never happy with what they have. They're always complaining. They're happy when they're complaining.
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It's weird: for someone who mostly really exists online, I'm actually not very interested in the Internet at all.
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My closest friends are the ones who tell me that I'm being dumb or that I'm being wrong.
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The cool thing about writing is that there is really never a typical day. Sometimes I get a rhythm going and head off to work every morning and come home at night. Sometimes I'll write for two days straight and then be utterly blank for the next two.
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My bookshelves have no order. I prune them regularly and sell the books to Myopic Books, a Chicago bookstore. They give me store credit, and then I spend all the store credit, and, presumably, return to sell them back more of the books I bought from them.
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I was once in a very, very bad car accident. So my drawing arm is full of pins and platinum stuff. Occasionally it hurts. But I found that after the arm was put back together I could draw better than before. I have no idea why.
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I write the songs, go in and record them, then I listen to everything and decide how it all fits together.
