John Lurie Quotes
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The team needs me out there on the field. And sometimes you allow that to jeopardize yourself, but that's just the nature of the world.
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The great thing about all my siblings is we all agree we had a horrendous childhood. It's not like it doesn't affect us now; it affects us every day, in everything we do.
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In film, you are a totally different person than in the video.
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Growing up, I had a very happy childhood, with two parents who are still very much together.
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I want every day to be life for the living, not just traipsing through it existing. I'm just interested in life and the world and exploring.
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We go after legacies because we just know that, sooner or later, people will understand what we bring to this culture and bring to the game.
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I've been grateful that 'Time's' reach and mandate is so broad; anything you're interested in, you can usually write about.
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Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good.
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L.A. really doesn't feel like home to me anymore.
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'Frida' was a joy; this was delicious, I couldn't wait every day to get to the set, although I was exhausted, and have my leg get cut off or lose the baby or be in her shoes and get to play my hero and be able to go places emotionally. You know, we live for parts like this. This is a dream for an actor.
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I haven't gone to college yet and I intend to in a few years.
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I love the game of hockey. I love being part of it. I think I know a lot about the game.
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Sometimes, I think the best kind of poem is one in which there is an acute balance between what is humorous and that which is very serious. That balance is very hard to strike. But it can be done.
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I was born with an evil face.
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There is no real agreement among scholars as to whether Homer and Hesiod were contemporaries or whether Homer came a hundred or so years later or earlier. How could there be, given that both poets recited and sang in an oral culture.
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I'm interested in complexity, in the mathematical sense, as well as the idiomatic sense. The idea of emergence - that it's possible for complex patterns to arise out of many simple interactions - is fascinating.
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I feel like we can't pick who we fall in love with because if we could, we would all make better choices. Your heart just falls where it falls.
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In principle... no government in the world can accept an armed terrorist group, some of them coming from abroad, controlling streets and villages in the name of 'jihad'.
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The comfort zone is the great enemy of courage and confidence.
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Don't worry about the title. Worry about what you've got to do today, tomorrow, the next day, and that title will be waiting for you.
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The bottom line is that if you become a master at handling problems and overcoming obstacles, what can stop you from success? The answer is nothing! And if nothing can stop you, you become unstoppable!
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If it is true that wars are won by believers, it is also true that peace treaties are sometimes signed by businessmen.
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Some people, when they die, leave so much life behind that we wonder how they did it.
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I've been through this fame thing before, when the band was big in '80, '81.
