John Fusco Quotes
It always circled back around to Marco Polo and Kublai Khan. That always fascinated me because so few people make the connection between the two.
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I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.
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I'm not being offered a constant stream of wonderful parts with wonderful directors that would keep me away from the theatre. When they turn up, I do them.
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Belgian chocolate is my weakness. I like over 72 percent cacao, which shows you how much of a dark chocolate snob I am.
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I do think that 'Pretty Little Liars' has raised the bar in how social media can tie into the fan base watching the show.
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I hope Obama gets scary in the next four years, 'cuz he ain't gotta worry about getting re-elected.
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Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.
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We always had money problems. Sometimes I would lie awake at night wondering how to pay the rent.
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I think the process is one of using the camera and sound in the way a detective uses a magnifying glass: to find the clues. They're discovery devices, not performance devices - you're watching things the way a cat does. You're not judging. You're there to witness something.
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How can I wage political battle against a widow who does not mean anyone any harm except only the president himself?
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This is my trademark: I rip my T-shirt. I'm into the whole showing-a-bit-of-chest-hair thing.
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What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.
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Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.
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I prefer more to kind of show people different things than tell them 'oh, here's what you should believe' and, over time, you can build up a rapport with your audience.
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A person standing in front of an audience without enthusiasm for his subject and his actions is disconnected from his spirit.
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Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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Fighting is easy to understand. You just hit the guy as hard as you can.
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The man that got me into collecting sneakers in the first place was the man they call Michael Jordan. He was the one who kind of exposed me to the sneaker world - he was my favorite basketball player, and he had the best shoes.
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I remember once doing a benefit for a Jewish charity and wearing an enormous cross. I kind of don't let the audience dictate anything to me. I sort of dictate to them, and they better be on board.
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I took a writing class in college, liked it, and my first year out of school I couldn't get a job, so I wrote a play.
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We are probably the only artists in the world who have a 2,000-page book on a work of art that doesn't exist. But in this way, these projects reveal their identity through this whole process. When I'm starting, I only have the slightest idea of how the work of art will exist.
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I'm in politics to change things - if possible, for the better. I was a journalist for a long time, but I had a kind of midlife crisis, and I decided I needed to do something to get on the pitch and stop endlessly kicking over other peoples' sandcastles.
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For example, it's only about 20 years ago the people in that community would have got telephone lines, and it would be only about in the 1950s that electricity came to that part of the world. Television wouldn't have come till 1970.
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It always circled back around to Marco Polo and Kublai Khan. That always fascinated me because so few people make the connection between the two.
