Josh Lucas Quotes
I think I've spent so much time playing characters that are so far away from me and learning how to technically build and how to technically put something on top of you.
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Be there for your kids. Later, when you need them, they'll be there for you.
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I'd long wanted to write about that moment when a woman steps off the career track to have her first child. For me, that was a scary time.
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I actually started playing in little cafes around New York, and I have a lot of good friends of mine who are musicians who are struggling in New York.
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There was definitely a time where I did not believe in the Lord. I needed to understand the love of God.
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Small lending institutions lack the capability of their larger counterparts to hire the additional manpower necessary to deal with the hundreds of additional regulations created by Dodd-Frank.
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People with a lot of money aren't in the business of throwing it away, and those paying footballers' wages, organising parking spaces for dead sharks, and even, dare I say it, buying iPads, are doing it because, for them, it's worth the money.
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Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.
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You accomplish what you want to accomplish. I just don't ever want to hurt anybody doing it.
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When one is the type of writer who cares about the meaning of the historically specific setting, the history itself is not something that I would call backdrop. It's not window dressing for a timeless relationship about love and betrayal. For me, the setting and the specific history are active co-agents with me in trying to form the novel.
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I am smarter because I stayed in school, and I am a better football player.
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My ancestors are Rajputs from Jaipur, a lineage of the royal family.
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I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
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The first thing I do is brush my teeth - we like to start the morning with fresh breath - and put on my pajamas and meander down to the kitchen for a glass of orange juice. No coffee. No caffeine.
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I love a man with stubble. It's very sexy.
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That knowledge which purifies the mind and heart alone is true Knowledge, all else is only a negation of Knowledge.
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I was born with more power inside myself than I ever dreamed. But along with it there came no more sense than any other idiotic kid. Somewhere along in here I need to grow up into a man I can stand to live with. A man who doesn't just survive, but deserves to.
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When I was younger, I'd go to the Museum of Television and Radio in New York and watch this beautiful clip of Billie Holiday playing with a bassist, a pianist and Gerry Mulligan, who was a friend of mine, on baritone sax. At one point, she looks over at Gerry, and they just smile. When those moments happen, it's just lovely.
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Humans are distinguished from other species by a massive brain that enables us to imagine a future and influence it by what we do in the present. By using experience, knowledge and insight, our ancestors recognized they could anticipate dangers and opportunities and take steps to exploit advantages and avoid hazards.
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When I was a teenager, I was obsessed with black eyeliner all around the eye, but for someone with my kind of skin tone and hair colour, using brown is actually better than black. I've also learnt from makeup artists how to apply lipstick in the correct way: by starting with the Cupid's bow first and working your way around.
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What if I said that every photograph I made was set up? From the photograph, you can't prove otherwise. You don't know anything from the photograph about how it was made, really.
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What if you have failed in the past? So, at one time did every man we recognize as a towering success. They called it "temporary defeat.
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Everybody is different. Some writers can write reams of great books and then J. D. Salinger wrote just a few. Beethoven wrote nine symphonies. They were all phenomenal. Mozart wrote some 40 symphonies, and they were all phenomenal. That doesn't mean Beethoven was a lesser writer, it's just some guys are capable of more productivity, some guys take more time.
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The time we spend in having our daily audience with God is the most precious part of the whole day.
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I think I've spent so much time playing characters that are so far away from me and learning how to technically build and how to technically put something on top of you.
