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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You have to stay focused and be mentally tough. That's what I've really learned: every day is a grind, and you have to go hard.
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You ingest the automobile in the very air of Detroit. Or at least you did in the 1940s and 1950s.
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I do think that 'Pretty Little Liars' has raised the bar in how social media can tie into the fan base watching the show.
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There is a lot of pretty horrific stuff that happens, and I don't usually get those kinds of characters who get to go to those places.
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I really think people should live to be 100 years old pretty much disease-free. I think that's our genetic potential.
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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.