Lois Wyse Quotes
Didn't we, like our grandchildren, begin with a childhood we thought would never end? Now, all of a sudden, I'm older than my parents were when I thought they were old.
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The rehearsal is where it all happens for an actor.
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I like the mix of stuff I do. I love movies, but I also enjoy performing live and writing songs.
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This is one hell of a business I picked to be in.
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I struggled with being a broke college graduate, and while all my friends were getting career jobs, I was working horrible part-time jobs. That's why now, even when I get tired, I think, 'This is what I asked for.'
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The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.
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I am a citizen of the world.
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I'm interested in taking raw human emotions and then isolating them without any narrative structure. In order to achieve this, I try to break out of the narrative conventions that you'd see in a typical feature film.
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I hate to witness animals in captivity - or see circus elephants paraded down the streets. When animals are caged, it's a loss of what they are.
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You can really taste the difference between a shop-bought and a good homemade mayo.
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You know, we don't have any decorative sprigs of rosemary; we're not placing little matchstick radishes onto an hors d'oeuvre... The food's gotta taste good. The concept's gotta taste good.
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Eclecticism - every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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Producing all my own songs and refusing to go to the hot producer. That's the biggest risk I've taken so far.
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One thing any DJ needs in his crate, especially at a barbecue, is a selection of 15-minute-plus jams.
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I think you need to be intentional at times about your leadership - where you're eating lunch, who you're interacting with, making guys feel like you're interested in what they're doing. If it's authentic, then it's going to be an easy conversation and easy hangout time.
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I don't normally vote. I'm lazy and I never bought into the 'Every vote counts.'
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I had a lousy marriage and I drank too much.
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I just wish that people will be kinder to me when I pass away.
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Too many times, the international community has not prepared the post-conflict period in time.
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Sweden is a good country to raise a family in because there is an equality there I don't feel in the States.
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My parents had to go to Ohio to get married in 1965 because it was still illegal in Mississippi. My white father and black mother.
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Abandon the urge to simplify everything, to look for formulas and easy answers, and to begin to think multidimensionally, to glory in the mystery and paradoxes of life, not to be dismayed by the multitude of causes and consequences that are inherent in each experience -- to appreciate the fact that life is complex.
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I've started films like Miami Vice where I'm in really good shape and I look back on that film and see the moustache is bigger as I've got a larger face.
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Didn't we, like our grandchildren, begin with a childhood we thought would never end? Now, all of a sudden, I'm older than my parents were when I thought they were old.
