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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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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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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I love fashion, and that's how I express myself.
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I think that sometimes you can be an example of what to do and what not to do, and I think most of the time I'm an example of what not to do.
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Over and over again, I hear from Oregonians that we need real health care reform that provides every American with access to quality, affordable care.
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I grew up in Baltimore, which is, you know, a city of extremes certainly, but my parents were very conservative. But they made me feel safe, and even though they were mortified at what I was doing, they encouraged it. I think because they thought, what else could I do?
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I've never really thought in terms of taboos. I think that books can really help parents and kids talk together about difficult subjects. I've always felt that way.
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I have a passion for animals and spend a lot of my spare time working with various organizations here in Toronto.
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The first time I got up in front of an audience was terror, abject terror, which continued for another four or five years. There still is, a little bit.
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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.
