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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist.
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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.
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I didn't particularly like being objectified.
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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.
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There is a clear link between illegal migrants coming to Europe and the spread of terrorism.
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The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
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Through teaching myself how to be happy and get through things, I hope I can also do that for other people.
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Typically, a book takes me about a year to write.
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Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.
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Reason has not tamed desire: it is as strong as ever.
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Experience is definitely the high road once driven. It actually enhances the songwriting and song sourcing process.
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I would describe myself as quite sane and lucid, which is why I'm still alive.
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Go to the ant, thou sluggard, learn to live, and by her busy ways, reform thy own.
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In the long run, there are people who've made more money or had bigger stardom at points. But, I think I'll have come out winning.
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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.
