Lance Morrow Quotes
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Sometimes when you do interviews, it gets twisted up.
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When you are dining with a demon, you got to have a long spoon.
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I enjoy going out by myself... always have, always will. I don't have security guards, and, for the most part, I enjoy meeting new people. I see myself as a regular guy who likes playing video games with his nieces and nephews and poker with his family. I don't have an art collection or take exotic vacations. I enjoy being at home.
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You can only govern men by serving them. The rule is without exception.
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Once you give up rights, they're not going to give them back.
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Women have to be active listeners and interrupters - but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about.
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Only in your imagination can you revise.
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Working for a magazine, you have a boss; you are not free.
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Womanhood is something you don't consider until it hits you.
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You can spend an entire day walking around in New York, whereas in L.A., it always ends at some point because you have to find a way to get home.
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There are a lot of actors who will sit here and talk to you about characters - 'He does this, and she's a really interesting character because she does this.' I'm not like that at all. I'm not an actory actor.
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Have an earnestness for death and you will have life.
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In so far as the government lands can be disposed of, I am in favor of cutting up the wild lands into parcels so that every poor man may have a home.
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My dad was a huge big band and jazz fan, and we both sort of enjoyed be-bop, but man, it required so much skill to play it. And then there was cool jazz, the era that Miles, Coltrane, and Ornette ushered in, and that found a home in me. It turns out that that music was just really where I breathed.
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There are ogres and black beasts out there; you have to be constantly on guard.
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When did you last have fun being dignified?
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There's so many great songs already written, it's kind of really wonderful you don't have to write your own.
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If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
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I thought I needed to go to one of the top five schools in the nation and never even thought 'What's important to me?' Instead of figuring out what was important, which was obviously being near home, I kind of just went with what everyone thought I should do.
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In my next life, I'm going to be a rock star. I was a ballerina in my last life.
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I started doing martial arts when I was about 7, and I got my second degree black belt when I was 19. So I have my second degree black belt, but I've never used it, and I had to stop when I got 'Instant Star' because I couldn't train.
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I think most of us sense that it is a responsibility of the humanities to try to help better the conduct of human beings in their lives and manifold professional activities.
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My, oh my, how 'Sometimes When We Touch' has travelled since I solemnly wrote my first version at the age of 19.
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Everywhere you hang your hat is home. Home is the bright cave under the hat.
