Lucan Quotes

Aut nihil est sensus animis a morte relictumaut mors ipsa nihil.

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• It was kind of easier for me to do records that didn't take a year or two years of my life to write and to make.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Year

• Jewish, black, Filipino, whatever the specificity is, it's specificity that makes a good story. And I think people are tired of seeing the same old shtick on network television. It's just a group of white people hanging out talking about their jobs. Who cares? We've seen that.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • People
  • Good
  • Black

• What I say or do here won't matter much, nor should it.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Should
  • Matter
  • Say

• But doing what I do, you will never get unanimity of people.

  

  Dan Abrams
  • People
  • You
  • Doing

• Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.

  

  Adam McKay
  • World
  • Comedy
  • Two

• I have to satisfy my audience.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Audience
  • Satisfy

• I know nothing about technology.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Know
  • Technology
  • Nothing

• I love doing improv, and I swear by it, and I encourage people to take classes, and blah blah blah. But it's always been interesting how it doesn't necessarily translate to television.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • People
  • Love
  • Interesting

• As an actor, I'm very much a company person. And this also goes through my life: I have a dread of responsibility. I like someone else to be in charge.

  

  Ian Holm
  • Life
  • Responsibility

• I want to write weirder stuff and convince people that it's Top 40.

  

  Verite
  • People
  • Want
  • Convince

• When I was younger, of course I had people act inappropriately to me. I've had certain directors yell at me. But I didn't stand for it, and I didn't let it go far enough for it to be in any way abusive to me.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • People
  • Me
  • Stand

• I force myself to outline, but not too closely, so I guess I plot by the seat of my pants? My natural instinct is to dive right in, but I know I'll get stuck. I like to stick with the architect vs. gardener metaphor. I guess I'm a gardener who plants tomatoes. I have the sticks in the ground and let the vines grow along those parameters.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • Myself
  • Grow
  • Plants

• There is Twitter outrage at everything. Be it a pair of trousers or a short skirt, somebody, somewhere, will not like it.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Like
  • Short
  • Twitter

• Better reality than a dream: if something is real, then it's real and you're not to blame.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Real
  • Dream
  • Reality

• Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Mind
  • Faith
  • Process

• Certain aspects of my personality are always going to come out on-screen. I guess that's just me – if they say I'm quirky, I'm quirky. It's better than being boring.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Personality
  • Better
  • Boring

• In my eyes, a patriot is little more than an international blackleg.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Eyes
  • More
  • Patriot

• I could live a thousand years and still not know everything, still not have tried anything.

  

  Cam Gigandet
  • Live
  • Know
  • Years

• If you're looking for the safe choice, you shouldn't be supporting a black guy named Barack Obama to be the next leader of the free world.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Guy
  • Free

• I'd like to say that people... people can change anything they want to; and that means everything in the world. Show me any country and there'll be people in it. And it's the people that make the country. People have got to stop pretending they're not on the world... It's time to take that humanity back into the center of the ring and follow that for a time... Think on that. Without people you're nothing.

  

  John Graham Mellor The 101ers
  • People
  • Country
  • Humanity

• I was a very violent kid. I think movies and writing and art have been a way of channeling this.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Writing
  • Art
  • Movies

• So ambitious men, if they find the way open for their rising, and still get forward, they are rather busy than dangerous; but if they be checked in their desires, they become secretly discontent, and look upon men and matters with an evil eye, and are best pleased, when things go backward.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Men
  • Evil

• Surely there had been no figure leaning on the back of his chair; no face looking over it. It is certain that no gliding footstep touched the floor, as he lifted up his head, with a start, and spoke. And yet there was no mirror in the room on whose surface his own form could have cast its shadow for a moment; and, Something had passed darkly and gone!

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Mirror
  • Shadow
  • Chair

• Aut nihil est sensus animis a morte relictumaut mors ipsa nihil.

  

  Lucan