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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I was not getting work, even after auditioning for films. So I started working in a studio as a photographer; I assisted a cinematographer for two ads. I was thinking that I will get into photography or cinematography or assist someone. But then the 'Dangal' offer came, and I was busy with the auditions.
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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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I'd been touring for so long, seven years. For a year and a half I'd just been curious about what it was like not to tour. It's like if you were to lift a 100-pound barbell with your right arm for seven years, eventually you'd get really curious about what your left arm was capable of.
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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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It is up to us to make the right choice and the right decisions.
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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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Anytime I met an actor, I just attacked them and said, 'How did you do this?' Eventually, I began to realize that you went to school for it. I wasn't a bright kid, so it took me a long time to figure that out.
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And I wasn't crazy about Hollywood in those days.
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Common sense is a vastly overrated virtue. I myself prefer the spark of genius.
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To do eleven fights in four months is pretty crazy. In some shows that we do in Asia, there are three or four fights over a six-month period, so you have time to recover and gain your stamina.
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I want to have a family and teach them the way to live their lives, pretty much the way I was raised, with a lot of love and the Lord. I want them to stay off the streets, and to have goals and dreams.
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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.
