John Fusco Quotes

I got the feeling: It's time to do a Marco Polo story. I felt like everything was lining up right because long-form television series were becoming to me like the new great American novel.

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• I grew up as a country boy.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
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• When companies get big, they slow down. They're not as exciting. If you want to get something done, it takes a lot of time and a lot of meetings.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
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• One of my favorite things about what I do for a living is that there is no certainty that, at any hour of any day, I could get a phone call that could change everything. Good or bad. I never know.

  

  Samm Levine
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• Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.

  

  Samuel Butler
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  • Sound
  • Wine

• What I'd like to pass on to my children is the thirst for knowledge. It's something I experience every day that I learned from my father. He always taught me that no matter how long you've done something, you can always learn something new and be better at what you do.

  

  Francesco Quinn
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• I think you have to do certain things in the pilot to get your network's attention - to break through... So maybe you push a little further in the first show.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
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• I never want to be anywhere else than in the rehearsal room. I mean, it's so lame to say, but it makes me supremely happy to work with people and to talk and invent and laugh.

  

  Yael Stone
  • People
  • Work
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• Once there was a boy so meek and modest, he was awarded a Most Humble badge. The next day, it was taken away because he wore it. Here endeth the lesson.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Day
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• A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
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• Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist.

  

  Camille Paglia
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• I used to have a very unmediated experience of food but, because of the recipe testing, I've lost that now. I can't switch it off even when I'm on holiday.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Experience
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• It wasn't not being famous any more, or even not being a recording artist. It was having nobody who needed me, no phones ringing, nothing to do. Because I'm still too young to do nothing. I was only 24 when all that happened. Now, at 40, I feel I've got more to give than I ever have.

  

  Gary Barlow Take That
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• There is a clear link between illegal migrants coming to Europe and the spread of terrorism.

  

  Viktor Orban
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• The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.

  

  Carl Sandburg
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• Typically, a book takes me about a year to write.

  

  Ted Bell
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• Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.

  

  W. Eugene Smith
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• When I was designing Mrs. Obama's dress, half of me was saying, 'What would Halston do?' The other half was saying, 'Be who you are.' Halston, me, America, India - it's been such a great combination. This is what makes me who I am, with the clean lines I learned from Halston and complicated Indian over-the-top Bollywood traditions.

  

  Naeem Khan
  • Great
  • America
  • Dress

• That's what hip-hop is: It's sociology and English put to a beat, you know.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
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  • English

• I remember Tom Stoppard saying to me when I came out, 'I feel so sorry for you, because you'll never have children.' These days I would say, 'Well, why not, Tom?'

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Children
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• The most interesting conversation is not about why Donald Trump lies. Many public figures lie, and he's only a severe example of a common type. The interesting conversation concerns how we come to accept those lies.

  

  Bret Stephens
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  • Lies

• I think for some reason people are drawn to stories of all kinds, for some reason they land harder when they are "true." And yet in fiction, I think there is a lot of deeper truth, too.

  

  T Cooper
  • People
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• Generally speaking, I don't think people know a great deal about the Viking culture, apart from the label that is usually attached to them, either pillagers or deviants who came and brought back loot to Norway. It was an incredibly sophisticated, complex and layered culture. They had their own laws, many of which protected women.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • People
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  • Women

• If our company is to survive and prosper, over the long term we must get our share of the youth market.

  

  R. J. Reynolds
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  • Youth
  • Tobacco Industry

• I got the feeling: It's time to do a Marco Polo story. I felt like everything was lining up right because long-form television series were becoming to me like the new great American novel.

  

  John Fusco
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