Gary Lutz Quotes
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I was a dispatcher, flat-tire fixer, changed the oil, fixed the fan belts. There was nothing too good for me.
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Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
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It's like a bird. If he knew what he was doing, he would fall.
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D.C. is where I started. That's home for me. I always love coming back to the area. They treat me so well, and people show up. They're excited and claim me as their own. I love it.
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Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways.
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Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.
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It's very difficult for my body to recover after workouts now that I'm older, so we have to keep them short, which means they're extremely difficult and intense. It sucks.
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What I do want is to be transparent about where I am and how I got here. I don't like the cone of silence - it didn't do me any favors in my 20s or 30s, and I don't see it doing much for other women, either.
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I think men are, like, repulsive, and I prefer being in a room with women. I think they're often just more interesting.
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The prime minister is not a private individual, but the leader of the Jewish State and the Jewish world as a whole.
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That fabulous polymath Samuel Johnson maintained that no man in his right mind ever read a book through from beginning to end.
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You may have seen me in movies like 'Fast & Furious' and 'Avatar.' But I wouldn't have been able to do any of that without hard work and determination. You can accomplish anything if you just stay out of trouble and do the right things.
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Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature of this connection.
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The speed of life that top American athletes have is boom-boom-boom, and I'm a lot slower. I look before I cross, you know?
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I think that a classic style in writing tends to remove the reader one level from the immediacy of the experience. For any normal reader, I think a colloquial style makes him feel more as though he is within the action, instead of just reading about it.
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The works of previous artists have come from their own experiences or insights but haven't given the experience itself. They had set themselves up as a sort of interpreter to the layman... Our interest is in a form where you realize that the media are just perception.
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I consider myself pretty fearless, but the one thing I have always been frightened of is cancer.
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Deciding to write a novel about something - as opposed to finding you are writing a novel around something - sounds to me like a good evocation of writer's block.
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I can sing, don't get me wrong, but it's no belting singing.
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I think the fame aspect, there was definitely a period when I had to get used to it. My family had to get used to it, too. It's exciting.
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I'm the type of spiritual person that doesn't speak openly about their spirituality. Irony is probably my religion.
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I went on safari in South Africa just after apartheid had ended.
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What could be worse than having to be seen resorting to your own life.
