Lucinda Williams Quotes
My approach to recording and all that is pretty organic. It just has to do with all the songs I wrote; go in and record them.
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I didn't audition for 'SNL.' I sent in a tape to 'SNL' the year before I started writing there, but I got the job there through doing stand-up on Fallon.
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My best friend Rosemarie and I had a very involved secret life when we were in elementary school. After we saw 'The Day the Earth Stood Still' on TV, we invented a whole secret life in which we were twins from the planet Venus, and we were in charge of the entire solar system as well as Earth.
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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
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I think there's always a line between what is parody in good fun in chanting and what is intended to belittle certain segments of society.
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My maternal grandmother, Penelope, was a very big figure in my life. She was a child of the Raj, born in India, a debutante who hobnobbed with royals, then married a Canadian, Bill Aitken, who became MP for Bury St Edmunds.
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In some communities, I show up, and they say, 'Well, we haven't seen our Democrat congressman in 10 years.'
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Singing for me has always been a joyous but private pleasure that connects me in a lyric thread to my beloved grandmother Alice.
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When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.
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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.
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Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.
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You never know what the future holds, so I am just enjoying being happy, healthy, and having my wonderful husband by my side.
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When people are poor, they find ways of making things taste like fish.
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I figured out early on what I wanted to do.
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If you watch a television show made by accomplished professionals of children's TV, it's all very expressive.
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I can tell more about my weaknesses than my strengths.
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I'm more liberated and happy than I've been my whole life. I'm just happy.
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In short, the satisfaction of creating, not necessarily the process, always lifts my heart.
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I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
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I had become monomaniacal about DNA only in 1951 when I had just turned 23 and as a postdoctoral fellow was temporarily in Naples attending a small May meeting on biologically important macromolecules.
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Any religion that professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them and the social conditions that cripple them is a spiritually moribund religion awaiting burial.
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I went to the studio of Fischli Weiss, and it was magical. I thought: 'This is what I want to do with my life; I want to work with artists and be useful to them.' I was magnetically attracted.
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It will never be Hollywood, the same way people think it should be. I think it will grow and it will be healthy and it will expand into more than one production house.
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My approach to recording and all that is pretty organic. It just has to do with all the songs I wrote; go in and record them.
