Craig Lancaster Quotes
Ernest Hemingway talked about how writing is opening up a vein and bleeding onto the page. You prepared to do that?
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North Korea, under its thirtysomething Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un, is no country for old men. The latest casualty in Kim's ongoing purge of the senior military command was the defense minister, Hyon Yong-chol, who reportedly committed the classic old man's offense of falling asleep in a meeting.
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This life and this job and this position that I'm put in, it forces you to grow up quick. I definitely got dropped in the deep end.
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I shall produce nothing that will offend the proprieties, whether applied to children or grownups. My pictures are turned out with clean hands and, therefore, with a clear conscience which, like virtue, is its own reward.
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The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.
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Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not.
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I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people.
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Archery requires very sensitive muscles.
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I've got a couple of Harleys and a couple of Ducatis.
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Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
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Improv as an actor makes you present in the moment. You listen, you're attentive. You're not acting so much as reacting, which is what you're doing in life all the time.
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In the white community, the path to a more perfect union means acknowledging that what ails the African-American community does not just exist in the minds of black people; that the legacy of discrimination - and current incidents of discrimination, while less overt than in the past - are real and must be addressed.
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People I respect complimenting me on my work in fashion is more exciting to me than anything I ever achieved as a Spice Girl. I am now competing in an arena where I can hold my head high. I feel quite confident in what I'm doing now, much more than the singing. I was never going to give Mariah Carey any competition.
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I'm going to always bleed the red, white, and blue. I represented the U.S. in the Olympics; I love my country. But the U.S. fans will love you on Monday; if you lose, they'll hate you on Tuesday. If you win, it will be back to loving you on Wednesday.
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A sociopath is not just someone who doesn't care about human emotion. They're someone who understands people to the point that they can manipulate them to an extraordinary degree.
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I was drawing a mandolin, and I made the sound hole very small, which made the mandolin look gigantic. I saw that making the details small made the form monumental. So in my figures, the eyes, the mouth are all small, and the exterior form is huge.
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Still often interventionist, convinced of our importance in the world, even those of us born long after 1900 live in a country that is much more Victorian than we think.
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China just banned ICO fundraising. They did Silicon Valley and the U.S. a favor - now we get first dibs.
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You're miserable, edgy and tired. You're in the perfect mood for journalism.
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It's possible to look really cute and still be comfortable. You don't have to kill your feet to have a fashionable look.
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As a musician, life is not over just because you are getting older, and so I find retirement a very frightening and dark thought.
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I think I'm an American writer writing about Latin America, and I'm a Latin American writer who happens to write in English.
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When I first started writing songs, I was probably about ten or twelve years old, and the first thing you think as a songwriter is, 'Can this be a hit? Can this come out, and people are going to hear the song and like the song, and then they're going to like you, and you'll get famous and rich?' That hasn't changed a bit.
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Ernest Hemingway talked about how writing is opening up a vein and bleeding onto the page. You prepared to do that?
