Lyle Lovett Quotes
One of my favorite things is when people will ask for a song that I hadn't planned to play. It is really fun to see if you can remember something, and you don't always. I mean, sometimes it's just crash and burn.
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Fitness, defending, the mental stuff - those were all weaknesses of mine. And I turned those into strengths.
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Seriously, 'Honey Boo Boo' is the decay of Western civilization. Just because so many people watch the show doesn't mean it's good.
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I see Turkey's future as being in Europe, as one of many prosperous, tolerant, democratic countries.
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There is a role and function for beauty in our time.
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Like great teams in sports and business endeavors, if there's a chemistry among the participants, and they truly enjoy fellowship together, everybody wants to be there, stay involved, and just have fun together.
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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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I never really have to sit at a desk thinking, 'What should I do now?' It doesn't work like that for me, and it never has. My thinking process is constant.
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People want entertainment, a whole night of it, a whole experience.
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My films have been progressing towards a certain kind of minimalism, even though it was never intended. Elements which can be eliminated have been eliminated.
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I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.
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I mean, Tool has a style, but we try to make all our songs sound different from each other.
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A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.
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When you save book reports, art projects and put them in a scrapbook, it shows a kid you care and you are taking an interest in their lives.
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I have had strange animals as pets all my life. I was shy growing up, and shy people tend to interact better with animals than people. Animals are direct, not duplicitous.
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I wanted to be a child actor so bad that every day I'd beg my parents if I could audition, but my mom said, 'Not until you can drive yourself to auditions.'
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I live in a small world of gouache and brush and pen and ink. I'd like to explore the world of multiples - etching and prints.
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I wasn't allowed to grow as an artist. My albums were nicer to look at than to listen to.
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Who knows the minds of men and how they reason and what their methodology is? But I am not going to extrapolate from the General Conference backing out on my book and make it a personal issue.
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You can't carve up the world. It's not a pie.
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I like being a Girl Scout.
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Playing a real-life character is a challenge and a huge responsibility.
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It is a quite special secret pleasure how the people around us fail to realize what is really happening to them.
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What people tell me they take away from my books is that they can shape their lives, they can achieve their own dreams. And certainly that's what I want them to take away.
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One of my favorite things is when people will ask for a song that I hadn't planned to play. It is really fun to see if you can remember something, and you don't always. I mean, sometimes it's just crash and burn.
