Lyle Lovett Quotes
Songwriters aren't always performers, and even performing songwriters aren't always the kind of show-biz performers you think they'd be.
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I love people with strong convictions, because we are living in a very PC world. You can't crack a joke without it being in the headlines.
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I always knew I had a voice and I've always known I could sing, but I was too shy to let it come out. I think it's the hardest thing to do, to sing in front of people. When I finally let go and did it, I realized it's what I'm most talented at and what I love to do the most.
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You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.
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There seem to be many causes of depression. One cause is profound loss, grief. Economic hardship we know is linked to depression. We don't have a full picture.
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I don't like allegories.
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For any couple, once you delve into the idea of non-monogamy, you're entering pretty frightening territory.
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The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse.
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When I began I thought that literature was contained within a bubble that somehow floated above the world commented upon by newspapers. But I became more and more interested in trying to include some of that world within my work.
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I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.
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A black dress is beautiful! It's a good choice. It could be the wrong choice at certain events or situations, but it's very rare that you see a girl who looks bad in a black dress.
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Being attractive, it's not something I do consciously. It's incredibly flattering that people think I appeal to women. But that was a gift from my parents.
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I'm having a vacation, and it's so beautiful, and maybe I'll never get another film idea in my life.
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The hardest thing about writing, for me, is facing the blank page.
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Charter schools have a far higher proportion of teachers who are not certified.
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I feel like I'm meant to be a mom.
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Some directors cast you because they trust you to do the performance - but then they forget to direct you.
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Adam Smith pointed out that there were three things that make us more prosperous, in a general sort of way: freedom to pursue our own self-interest; specialization, which he called division of labor; and freedom of trade.
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It's not about retro or modern, it's about this note or that note, which sounds better?
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Nobody can say a word against Greek: it stamps a man at once as an educated gentlemen.
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Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline.
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For every $1 billion we invest in public transportation, we create 30,000 jobs, save thousands of dollars a year for each commuter, and dramatically cut greenhouse gas emissions.
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Solitary. But not in the sense of being alone. Not solitary in the way Thoreau was, for example, exiling himself in order to find out where he was; not solitary in the way Jonah was, praying for deliverance in the belly of the whale. Solitary in the sense of retreat. In the sense of not having to see himself, of not having to see himself being seen by anyone else.
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This is like one thing that I've tried to do, and I think successfully, that when you realize that nothing really belongs to you, you begin to appreciate having an understanding of just where your head is at, and you feel so much better.
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Songwriters aren't always performers, and even performing songwriters aren't always the kind of show-biz performers you think they'd be.
