Palmer Luckey Quotes
If I grew up in 'da hood,' it would make my story so much more interesting - if I had something to escape from. I had a pretty good life. My parents weren't rich; they weren't poor. I wasn't trying to escape from anything. It was always just the pursuit of something cooler.
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The entire time I was up shooting 'Suits,' I was running back to my trailer to help get 'Nine Circles' produced. It's a no-brainer for me to keep that part of life alive.
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When I wrote 'Fight Song,' I was in a particular low point. I needed to remind myself to not give up, that I still believed in myself and that I still had fight left.
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I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.
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Every burn on my body has had its own different personality. And all of them needed different things.
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Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
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My father had a flourishing business as a publisher in North India.
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I feel optimistic about how heterogeneous societies pull together. We just have to keep on with the struggle.
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There is no bore like a clever bore.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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I am a citizen of the world.
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Kim Jong Un came in as a fresh face, so I think there's a great disappointment that he's playing the same game as his father.
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There's an excitement to officiating a well-played game. A lot of discretion, a lot of judgment comes into play.
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Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.
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I decided in my late teens that I wanted to be an actor, and my dad and I agreed that films were better. I work alongside my dad, you see. I've thought that films were better since I was a kid.
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Wanting to be a good actor is not good enough. You must want to be a great actor. You just have to have that.
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No one really knows who I am or where I came from in America, and there's something quite nice about that.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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When I was writing my dissertation, I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or stop going to the toilet whenever you want to. It's about learning to repress a desire for instant gratification.
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I can't selfishly take journeys anymore because I have to take a little boy along with me.
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I have, for a few years, been writing comedy prose - short pieces for my blog - because I found it to be a good way to write while I was on a TV show. It was different enough from my scripts that it felt like a break, but it still was comedy and very fun. I like to do comedy!
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Universities are not places where police can come and arrest people. Let the children have a discourse as they want to. They will learn as they move on in life. But to target individuals and institutions is dangerous.
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All art to me is an empathetic act. Whoever's telling a story is trying to transfer emotion into someone else.
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There are two qualities that make fiction. One is the sense of mystery and the other is the sense of manners. You get the manners from the texture of existence that surrounds you. The great advantage of being a Southern writer is that we don't have to go anywhere to look for manners; bad or good, we've got them in abundance. We in the South live in a society that is rich in contradiction, rich in irony, rich in contrast, and particularly rich in its speech.
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If I grew up in 'da hood,' it would make my story so much more interesting - if I had something to escape from. I had a pretty good life. My parents weren't rich; they weren't poor. I wasn't trying to escape from anything. It was always just the pursuit of something cooler.
