Lisa Graff Quotes
I'd like to have a perfect sense of direction. I could get lost with a GPS strapped to my arm.
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I have so much drive and passion for this industry and the creative arts, and I want other kids to have that kind of drive, and to have a fire in their belly for whatever industry that they want to get into.
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You only get one chance in this thing called life. I know that is a bit maudlin and obscure, but it's a fact, and you can make a profound difference in people's lives without having a title in front of your name.
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When I was 5 and playing against 11-year-olds, who were bigger, stronger, faster, I just had to figure out a way to play with them.
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If you're only going to give away 50 percent of your wealth... c'mon. I'm going to do much more than that.
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Act because you love to act.
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The military is a machine of war. Not a law enforcement agency.
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When I was a kid just starting out on the radio, I would always watch people. And I'd see the interest they'd have in trying to get a photo with an artist or get a ticket stub signed. I guess, to me, that's the ultimate thing – to know that what you've done is important enough to other people that they want to take a picture with you.
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It makes me proud, and it makes me scared. More than anything, I want to be an actor and I want to keep working, and I think there's a danger in being perceived as a poster boy for something.
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Paddy Considine is a great friend of mine, and he is a natural actor because he is an artist, and I'm not an artist. If I ever blow my own trumpet, it's as a craftsman.
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The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
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If you give a good performance, something that gets some feeling across to people, that's such a rare gift. It's underestimated at this point in history, when the music biz is inevitably turning into a kind of politics.
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I'm not really into weight training.
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.
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Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
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Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.
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We can become anyone we want to become. It takes focusing on the aspect of ourselves we want to change and reflecting on the beliefs that cause us to act in ways that are counter to the change we seek.
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I try to make myself, and subsequently the audience, as uncomfortable as possible, whether it's completely desecrating a song they thought was one thing, or getting too drunk to really do a very good job.
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The art of creation is older than the art of killing.
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We don't need wings to be angels We don't need reasons to be right Your love makes us all better That who we really are Angels and heroes at heart
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Certain days I think definitely because we went in there and we got Saddam and that was our mission. On other days, we lost so many lives and so many brothers and sisters... on that aspect, no.
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For me chilling out is when I can stay at home, order food from outside and watch a film with my friends. Listening to music and watching films are my idea of perfect relaxation.
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I'd like to have a perfect sense of direction. I could get lost with a GPS strapped to my arm.
