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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Iran exports about 2.2 million barrels a day.
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I do feel that movies and music do have the power to slightly influence a person's decision. I believe that if violence is not in a person, then the film is not going to encourage them.
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If the law tries to legislate our 'yeses' and 'noes' it will produce 'the straitjacket generation' – a generation afraid to flirt, fearful of finding its love notes in a court suit. Date rape legislation will force suitors and courting to give way to courts and suing.
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I use colors that have already been experienced through the light of day and through the state of mind of the total man. In other words, my colors are not colors that are laboratory tools which are isolated from all accidentals or impurities so that they have a specified identity or purity.
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'Illusion' is a story of God's love and our hunger to find him when we're separated from him. If I can paint a picture of two people still in love after 40 years, that's a pretty good message.
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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.
