Lyle Lovett Quotes
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The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done. I try to make sure that I don't repeat my music.
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If you look at the scientists who really make a difference, they think boldly. They're not afraid to question what they see.
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I write poems, I meditate. I don't live up to people's expectations. I don't do the conventional cool things - I know I am the coolest person.
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On the other hand, all kinds of adventurous schemes to add security checkpoints to subway and bus systems have been circulating since the London attacks. This is nonsense. No one can guaranty 100 percent security.
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I have been fortunate to experience a wide range of characters. What more can an actor ask for?
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When in Rome, do as you done in Milledgeville.
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A movie is about human beings, about humanity.
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Human faces shouldn't get lost amid the statistics.
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I have been sustained by cane field, the cane plantation I have.
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I try not to look back on my life and be regretful.
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The hardest thing to do and most miserable films are comedies.
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I have a lot of Republican friends.
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Let each person do his or her part. If one citizen is unwilling to participate, all of us are going to suffer. For the American idea, though it is shared by all of us, is realized in each one of us.
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My awkward stage extended well into high school.
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Why should Bollywood accept me? I should accept Bollywood. I don't care if Bollywood has accepted me. I don't seek acceptance. I don't need to live up to anybody's expectations.
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I'm a Sikh; it's part of my religious tradition to never cut my hair and keep it wrapped in a turban.
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To the solace of his name, simply saying 'Muhammad' has an incredibly soothing effect on me.
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In Japan, there's a TV series called Jin. It deals with time travel. I like stories about time travel. It's a story about people living in modern day that travel back to the Edo era. Those things really interest me.
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History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.
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We were very young in Duran, and to get pushed in a corner can be very difficult to get out of.
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There is no doubt that we cannot do without variable quantities in the sense of the potential infinite. But from this very fact the necessity of the actual infinite can be demonstrated.
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Like Godfather, you look at a movie like that, or something that James Gray has directed, a film with minimal or pin lighting as opposed to everything being lit bright and flat, where everything is evident.
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I called it 'Historian' because I feel like most of my creative efforts are efforts to capture something or to document it.
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I'm really in no danger of being perceived as a famous movie actor!
