Lucinda Williams Quotes

I started writing more with my voice in mind.

Lucinda Williams

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MindWritingVoiceMoreStarted

An orchard can grow pastured poultry underneath. A beef cattle or sheep farm can run pastured poultry behind the herbivores, like the egret on the rhino's nose.

Joel Salatin

GrowFarmSheepRunNoseCattle

Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.

John Cheever

HomeTimePeopleWorldNothing

Because of the generation in which I came into the world, there were expectations. Of course there were expectations. It was something having to do with being a respectable Negro woman who would make the people in Baltimore proud.

Anna Deavere Smith

WomanPeopleWorldProudGeneration

When you're undercover you try to stay as true to your identity as you are. You know who you are, and you know how you normally function. If you try to put on a pretense, such as assuming a fake voice, you have to put on that fake voice all of the time. And you can't afford to slip out of it. It's too dangerous.

Ron Stallworth

TimeIdentityVoiceFakeYouKnow

I feel that every time I get the ball at the moment I am going to score.

Michael Owen

TimeMomentI AmFeelBallGoing

I won't complain about touring, because I really do believe that a public-figure musician complaining about being a public-figure musician is just absurd. Like, 'Boo hoo hoo! I have to stand on stage and people pay attention to me!'

Moby

PeopleMeBelieveStandAttention

Social issues have been used to distract Americans from their own self interests since Nixon's southern strategy, and now people are paying the price.

Deborah Kass

PeopleSelfStrategyPriceNowOwn

What everyone loved about '24' is still there - the clock, the tick, the lean-in factor, the pacing.

Corey Hawkins

LovedClockEveryoneStillAbout

I was classically trained in operetta from about age 4, I think.

Clare Bowen

AgeThinkI ThinkAboutTrained

It's easy to deprecate some of the puffery and jingoism that often go with affirmations of 'American greatness.' It's also easy to confuse greatness with perfection, as if evidence of our shortcomings is proof of our mediocrity.

Bret Stephens

PerfectionGreatnessAmericanEasy

Location is the key to most businesses, and the entrepreneurs typically build their reputation at a particular spot.

Phyllis Schlafly

ReputationKeyBuildLocationMost

All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.

Thomas Paine

PowerMeChristianProfitJewishUp

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