J. Anthony Lukas Quotes
I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive to creativity.
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There are hundreds of people running around with great voices. If they would study and develop them they could become great singers.
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I like films to be complete in their written form.
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The media's gotten lazy. They don't check anything out. You report what he reports.
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I have many different sides; I can be the life and soul of the party - or a wallflower.
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I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.
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In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
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As the law minister, I had ensured that the government's right to natural resources was protected. The result was evident. The honourable Supreme Court gave the landmark decision in RIL vs RNRL case that the government is the owner of all natural resources.
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And so there is no God but has been in the loins of past gods.
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Time and again we see leaders and members of religions incite aggression, fanaticism, hate, and xenophobia - even inspire and legitimate violent and bloody conflicts.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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Real Madrid is the most important thing that happened to me, both as a footballer and as a person.
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When I recorded my solo album, 'Keep It Hid,' in 2008, I'd gotten more interested in songwriting, inspired by reading Charles Bukowski and connecting with unfancy, interesting language.
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When you're a teenage girl, a lot of being pretty has to do with your hair.
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No, I worked a lot for European television, doing documentaries in Brazil.
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I do have the personnel that we use in the back of my head when I'm working, but I also don't want to limit myself.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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Except for the Bible, the two greatest documents ever written are the U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.
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Fifteen- to 30-year-olds are interested in all kinds of intelligent movies - it doesn't have to be a broad comedy or an action adventure for them to go see it.
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I think cinema is linked to literature by a lot of social ways. Our brains are full of literature - my brain is.
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Regular feedback is one of the hardest things to drive through an organization.
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If the part isn't always there on the page, I've had good relationships with writers where there's an openness to bring more to the role.
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Your average game show host on TV, for instance, doesn't believe himself to be banal. He actually thinks that he's quite interesting. And if you look at the viewing figures, so do an enormous number of people in this country.
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I believe that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act must be reformed. We must improve the American public's confidence in, and perception of, our national security programs, by increasing transparency, strengthening oversight, and safeguarding civil liberties.
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I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive to creativity.
