Gary Lutz Quotes
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The Carnegie Foundation is well aware of the fact that their reports frequently find their way to dusty archives in academic institutions, but occasionally people pick up a segment of a report and act upon it.
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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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Creating a character and living truthfully through her is a whole different ball game. It's all part of the same person but it's a much newer medium for me.
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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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When you think about those of us that live the life that we want to live, we can thank absolutely and completely our men and women in uniform. Because if it were not for them, we wouldn't enjoy the freedoms that we have.
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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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You can't second-guess yourself as a filmmaker.
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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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Creativity in all forms of life, from arts to business to domestic situations, depends on our ability to recognize and explore gaps.
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The founder of Crunk Feminists is a Christian. If you claim to be a Christian, but then you attack somebody for saying you should approach a problem with love, you're not being a true Christian.
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Time travel is one of Assad's major achievements, the problem is he only perfected it one way: backward.
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If I have a problem, it is this: there is a store where everything costs a dollar.
