D. Wayne Lukas Quotes
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All history is defined by shifting modes of reality and time and how things change. That's what I love about cinema. It changes in the moment.
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The medication I had to take was a form of chemotherapy. You feel like death every day. No appetite. No energy. But the treatment worked. It cured my liver 80 per cent but compromised my kidneys.
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I wasn't a visionary but I literally had my finger on the pulse of the women of America.
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Millions of people are married. I've never picked up a paper and seen a headline that says, Man Gets Married!
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I'm committed to sign in everything I communicate, but I also speak. I still believe that I reach more people when I do that. I bridge two different cultures and two different worlds, and I think that bridge still needs work.
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The sky is always there for me, while my life has been going through many, many changes. When I look up the sky, it gives me a nice feeling, like looking at an old friend.
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It is easy to get an interesting loop to happen, but it becomes a collage when the song and loop are constantly changing.
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You would never see me driving around in a sports car. I feel like you're so low and squish-able by transport trucks.
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My mom, who's been in the restaurant business for 40 years, is the number-one influence in my life. But I look up to a lot of people in the industry. Tops on my list is Mario Batali. My mom and Mario taught me the same lesson: Food is love.
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The more of what our music does violates the premise of its format that it's presented in, the better. So, hearing our music in the supermarket, a Muzak version, is great.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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There is violence in real life but I would never impose violence in a film just to attract the audience.
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There are no more excuses for leaving women out of the inner circles of power. Qualified women are everywhere. Women are ready for leadership; they just need to be identified and asked.
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I'm the worst employee in the world. I'll cheat and steal time and resources from my employer, although I'll con everybody into believing I'm essential to the operation.
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To put me through school my morn had to work, so I was a latchkey kid.
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I try to write down every song that comes to me, even though I know that every song that comes to me isn't a song that I need to sing.
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Stay away from drugs. They're not worth it. I've tried, but there's none of them that's worth it.
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Akhenaten's allegedly monotheistic worship of Aten and the more naturalistic art produced during his reign, a revolutionary break from the more formal art of earlier periods, have made him a sympathetic figure to many.
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People tethered to God by faith can let themselves go because they know they will get themselves back.
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The world is not prepared yet to understand the philosophy of Occult Sciences - let them assure themselves first of all that there are beings in an invisible world, whether 'Spirits' of the dead or Elementals; and that there are hidden powers in man, which are capable of making a God of him on earth.
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It was just a little bit of play confusion.
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He'll put up with you for a little while, but then he wants to kick and play.
