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I have always depended on the kindness of strangers. ↗

— Tennessee Williams

#depended #i #kindness #strangers

Yesterday NPR fired me for telling the truth. The truth is that I worry when I am getting on an airplane and see people dressed in garb that identifies them first and foremost as Muslims. This is not a bigoted statement. It is a statement of my feelings, my fears after the terrorist attacks of 9/11 by radical Muslims. ↗

— Juan Williams

#airplane #am #attacks #bigoted #dressed

He was so tenacious he defied the distraction of women by refusing to have them in his presence, just as later in life he denied his blindness by calling for more and more candles. ↗

— Kit Williams

#calling #candles #defied #denied #distraction

The three traits speculators must learn to manage within themselves are confidence, fear, and aggressiveness. ↗

— Larry Williams

#confidence #fear #learn #manage #must

People let their own hang-ups become the obstacles between them and personal happiness. ↗

— Lucinda Williams

#become #between #hang-ups #obstacles #own

I mean, whose songs don't focus on tragedy and loss? ↗

— Lucinda Williams

#i #loss #mean #songs #tragedy

I started writing songs, I guess, when I was about 13 or 14, but I didn't know if they were good enough yet or anything. ↗

— Lucinda Williams

#anything #enough #good #guess #i

I write first for myself as a therapeutic process, to get stuff out and to deal with it. ↗

— Lucinda Williams

#first #get #i #i write #myself

Of course, I'm older now. I'm in a different place in my life than when I wrote the songs for 'Car Wheels' or 'Essence' or whatever. Different things were going on. ↗

— Lucinda Williams

#course #different #different place #different things #essence

You can't really praise somebody's work and then criticize the process. ↗

— Lucinda Williams

#praise #process #really #somebody #then