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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Now I understand why people do drugs, why people drink, and why people go crazy. As the success level goes up and up and up, the further detached I get from everybody else. Luckily, with my girlfriend, everything is gravy because I brought her into it. I brought her in and she's very hands on with my career.
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Based on a lifetime of observations and a few decades in the markets, I understand that societies, beliefs and fashions all move in long arcs of time. We call these arcs several things: cycles, periods, eras.
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When my mother died, and when my father died, it's big. Our parents are giants; they're titans of our lives, so of course it's going to be a big deal.
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My special cause, the one that alerts my interest and quickens the pace of my life, is to preserve the wildflowers and native plants that define the regions of our land-to encourage and promote their use in appropriate areas, and thus help pass on to generation in waiting the quiet jobs and satisfactions I have known since my childhood.
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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.
