Lyle Lovett Quotes

I've never made a dime from a record sale in the history of my record deal. I've been very happy with my sales, and certainly my audience has been very supportive. I make a living going out and playing shows.

Lyle Lovett

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I felt that, in some ways, my novels lacked heart because of the distance between me and the subject matter. But no one wants to read a book based on good health, a happy upbringing, a long marriage.

Jim Crace

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A book is a journey: It's a thing you agree to go on with somebody, and I think every reader's experience of a book is going to be different.

John Darnielle

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People expected 'Jennifer's Body' to make so much money. But I was doubtful. The movie is about a man-eating, cannibalistic lesbian cheerleader, and that pretty much eliminates middle America. It's obviously a girl-power movie, but it's also about how scary girls are. Girls can be a nightmare.

Megan Fox

MoneyPeopleAmericaBodyScary

God expects but one thing of you, and that is that you should come out of yourself in so far as you are a created being made and let God be God in you.

Meister Eckhart

GodYourselfYouOutOne ThingCome

The lovely thing about being an actor is being anonymous, it's never having to explain yourself. And that's what I find interesting about actors or painters I admire. I don't want to know about their lives.

Matthew Macfadyen

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I really believe in the power of music - and I mean literally the power of musical tones - to rearrange the way you can think.

Michael Azerrad

MusicPowerBelieveThinkYouWay

I didn't really want to be part of a clique or a niche. But I also was looking for my own voice, as a writer, y'know? And a world I could call my own.

Tom Waits

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Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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If that's the way the game is played, I don't want to play anymore.

Joyce DeWitt

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I can say with total conviction that it was the Holy Spirit that chose, guided the election of Pope Francis.

Donald Wuerl

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The more that I can work in different mediums, the more I can grow, and learn from different actors and different types of actors and directors and different styles of acting and build a tool box.

Christina Ricci

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Some of the anti-trade sentiment is the result of rising wealth inequality and stagnating real wages.

Arancha Gonzalez

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