Gary Lucas Quotes
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I like sitting close to windows.
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I was definitely incredibly close to my dad, in a way that was all-encompassing. I am close to my mum, too, but there were areas that she and I did not share. So his loss to me was huge, personally and professionally. He believed in me, not just as a father, but as a director, and that always meant a lot.
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Everywhere in the world, we're aware that democracy has incredible flaws and that the word has been used, especially in the United States, to wage wars.
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I know it's a lot harder for women who don't have enough help, but the truth is, no matter how much money you have, if you want to stay involved with your children and don't want to lose being a primary parent to them, you're still in the game.
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The music I love listening to is more of the Jack Johnson, Ben Harper, Dido, Jewel, Nora Jones, Joss Stone, a bit more of that organic live-instrumentation feel.
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This love is silent.
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The trains were the beating heart of the New York graffiti scene.
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When all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
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I try not to see Woody Harrelson because he has become this big movie star, and it grates, so I try and stay away from him.
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The first job I ever had was singing in a jazz club when I was like 15 with my friend, and we earned like 70 bucks. We were like, 'Oh my God!'
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In the late '90s, I spent a lot of time on reservations, and there was a level of poverty and injustice that I had not witnessed before. I was shocked by it. This is federally controlled land, and there was an insidious mix of apathy and exploitation.
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I love design-based stuff. I dug it in 'Pleasantville' and dug it in 'Seabiscuit.'
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You can blow on the dice all you want, but whether they come up 'seven' is still a function of random luck.
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In its truest manifestation, where it gives judgments, poetry is super-luxury. It would be interesting to see what would happen to a High Court judge if he were forced to follow the true poetic formula, doing the job for love, being forced into pubs for relief.
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There's more to life than physical and material.
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If the only ideas you had were your own, you'd be very limited.
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We all want to be the sexy girl.
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I didn't work for Jimmy Carter all those years to go to cocktail parties. I was there as a political adviser, a short-order cook, to work on topical matters.
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It's a job. When I'm writing I'm going to do it five to six days a week and I'm going to work for four to six hours a day. There's no magic writing fairy. It's just hard work.
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Nothing means more to me than racing for my country, the Queen, the Royal Family, and the people back home that support me.
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What's my dilemma here? Am I making entertainment or am I making art? What am I saying? At the end of the day, cinema is entertainment for millions of people, but for me it's expression.
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There've been times where I wondered whether it was worth continuing in my own education.
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I have to plead basic ignorance of most new jazz artists here.
