Ian Lustick Quotes
For the U.S., as the largest player in the global environment, unintended consequences are magnified.
Quotes to Explore
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I tend to lean toward strong female stories. I want to make things that don't already exist out there.
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Doing a kid's movie is fun when you have kids. You don't want to do kids' movies if you don't have kids. When you have kids, things change in your life.
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I like that in 'Caprica' the virtual world is a new thing. The parents didn't have that growing up. And it's the same thing about the Internet and all the current technology. It didn't exist like it does now for our parents' generation. Kids aren't relating to their parents anymore, and I just find that so honest.
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A cat is never vulgar.
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Rowling is a luminous storyteller. I love her sense of humor and the intricate wizarding world she built around Hogwarts. I think all writers aspire to be like her, to capture readers like she does. But I didn't think about 'Harry Potter' when I wrote 'The Bone Season.'
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I don't think anything I've written has been done in under six or eight drafts. Usually it takes me a few years to write a book. 'World's Fair' was an exception. It seemed to be a particularly fluent book as it came. I did it in seven months. I think what happened in that case is that God gave me a bonus book.
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Being Jewish is a big part of my artistic sensibility and my humor... I think it gives me a certain take on the world on a literary level.
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I've seen the future and it's much like the present only longer.
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I think it would be shocking for me to pretend not to have any past. And also, it would be a lie.
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My mum brought me up to think that personal happiness is more important than your family.
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'Castle' is a guy living in a fantasy world. He's in his imagination, writing these stories of murder.
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Time is important to me because I want to sing long enough to leave a message. I'm used to singing in churches where nobody would dare stop me until the Lord arrives!
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Ladies and babies, and mortgages, for that matter, can all wait. Acting has done a strange thing to me, though. I often sit there, thinking, 'I love this, but I wouldn't put my daughter on the stage.'
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A marriage contract to me is as binding as any in business, and I have always believed in sticking to an agreement.
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He was a silly guy. Out - do the other guy. That was his effort at all times.
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I've had an interest in politics since I was a little kid.
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I love the produce section at the grocery store.
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Posthumous reputations have little to do with real lives.
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I've done plays where you get into the run and can go to auditions during the day, or can have lunch with someone, and then you go to half-hour and show up.
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Sin is the reason we abuse our authority.
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New ideas are one of the most overrated concepts of our time. Most of the important ideas that we live with aren't new at all.
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There needs to be radical development in equality law to create the environment to allow women to stay in work.
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For the U.S., as the largest player in the global environment, unintended consequences are magnified.
