Lyle Lovett Quotes
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Fame has become this obsession for people, which kind of creeps me out.
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There's one guy who inspired a nation of golfers, and that's Greg Norman. He's been incredible to me and all the great golfers.
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Every year is pressure. You need to put in on yourself to go out and perform.
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Unalloyed love of God is the essential thing. All else is unreal.
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A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.
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I'm developing artists for my new record label, my son's band, Intangible, being one of them.
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Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man.
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In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live and enjoy his being who is engaged in some laudable pursuit, and acquires a name by some illustrious action, or useful art.
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Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger.
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I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.
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The day I became a hero, my dream was realised. Everything else is a bonus.
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The polls and the pundits and the media seem to talk to each other. It's sort of like an echo chamber.
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I just think that - when a country needs more income and we do, we're only taking in 15 percent of GDP, I mean, that - that - when a country needs more income, they should get it from the people that have it.
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Truth is a tendency.
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I was at 260 at Tennessee because I was playing three-technique.
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I've played so many different parts in the last 40 years.
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After the fall of dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, Romanians were crazed with happiness. People who never met each other before hugged each other in the streets - convinced that tomorrow things would look different. Then came the many disappointments.
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I've always been attracted to action stuff.
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I was an English major in college, took a ton of creative writing courses, and was a newspaper reporter for 10 years.
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I was hopeless, now I'm on Hope Road.
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I was always very independent and looked out for myself. I think that ability really helped me in later years both in sports and in theatre.
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The art of tomorrow will be a collective treasure, or it will not be art at all.
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I'm kind of still learning my voice and learning my style.
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I've just always written songs in a style that appeal to me personally.
