Gary Lutz Quotes
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Let there be a door to thy mouth, that it may be shut when need arises, and let it be carefully barred, that none may rouse thy voice to anger, and thou pay back abuse with abuse.
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I put it to you that there are no British poets, there are no British novelists. I have heard myself described as one, but I think really I'm an English novelist; there are Scottish poets and Scottish novelists.
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I think the greatest privilege you have as an artist is time to nurture what you want to make; that's super luxurious. For you to rush into something, that doesn't feel fun to me. I'm living life in order to be able to write about it.
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I've always been a rough kid.
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Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay.
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My priority is to take care of my daughter and my family.
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The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
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Look at any country that's plagued with poverty, disease or violence; the antidote is girls. Girls are the antibodies to many of society's ills.
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I have such difficulty calming down - my stomach, my head, reality, everything. That is the reason I live in Faro.
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Regardless of my legislation, spending has to be stopped.
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You can always plan where you think your life is going to go but I don't think you can really plan your future.
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Acting has made me embrace my childhood. It's become some weird form of therapy. It's like I have a place where I can release all of these emotions. When I was playing Ira Hayes, I didn't have to think about the death of my parents directly. It's just there. I can blend it into Ira's character. I can use Ira's emotions as an outlet.
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It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.
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I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment.
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I used to go in for Disney auditions, and they'd tell me, 'You're cute and nice but just not funny.'
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I think it's the actor's job - when you think of being typecast or getting out of the shadow of whatever you've had success in - it's up to you as an actor. The industry will always want to hire you for what you were successful in last and what made money. But you can say no to that and look for other parts.
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I don't just want to be someone who hits the ball 100 per cent every time. You can play with freedom and still mix up the pace, mix up the spins and everything like that. That's what I want to be doing, because you get into that very one-dimensional kind of tennis if you don't work on slicing and coming into the net.
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I used to do little sketches into my cassette tape recorder when I was a little boy. I would just turn it on and just start doing voices and characters. I just loved it.
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I did 'Mad Men' and I still have people come up to me like, 'Are you actually a lesbian?' Really? Just because I play one on TV? People will think what they're gonna think.
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Being single is only sad if you have a problem with your own company. I'm content with mine.
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Humans build their societies around consumption of fossil water long buried in the earth, and these societies, being based on temporary resources, face the problem of being temporary themselves.
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We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace.
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If I have a problem, it is this: there is a store where everything costs a dollar.
