Lucas Grabeel Quotes
I'm competitive with myself, but not with other people. I set goals for myself. I don't really care about winning or losing as long as I do my best.
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The future is much like the present, only longer.
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Most people get excited about games, but I've got to be excited about practice, because that's my classroom.
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For me, it's better to live without looking over your shoulder, worrying about who is controlling your phone, maybe poisoning your food.
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I get really upset seeing my friends who are mums crying because they feel like they're not good enough. Clever, confident, kind young women all going, 'I'm ruining my child's life.'
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We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.
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Obviously it's more fun having my teammates there and having all that camaraderie, but individual workouts are not a loss.
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I'm afraid that I won't do a good job when I go into an audition.
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I'll tell you something: my dad was a nuclear engineer and he was really bright, and I've always said that because of negotiating at such a young age with my dad, it was really such a gift because I could then negotiate with very difficult personalities - and not end up being the scapegoat. I learned to really pick and choose my battles.
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Because art as a pursuit, as a concept, as an ideal, constantly elevates one above the pragmatic, one is inclined to discuss art in heightened terminologies. For me, it is just what I do all day long.
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When I was working with Tom Ford, he would just look at me and ask, 'Will you wear it?' I'd say, 'Ah, too long, too short, lower waist, deeper V, unbutton' - that sort of thing. I don't create clothes, but I definitely know how to make them come alive.
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I respect the view of a rating agency, but I do not make a budget for the rating agency. I make a budget for the people of India.
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I'm very realistic. I know my boundaries - I know what I'm good at and what I'm not good at.
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The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
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We must have the time to create strict rules so that property is not sold by Communist managers for a low price. They often get payments under the table to sell to the first bidder. This does not build public support for a market economy.
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I'm obsessive. That's the word for me. I obsess – perhaps to the point where it's moderately dysfunctional. I tend to put a book through about 100 revisions. If anything, that's an understatement. If there's another author out there who does this sort of revision, I would really like to meet him. Maybe we could form some sort of support group.
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All the big online retailers are looking at how to enter the Russian market.
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In the '70s I was in exile; every time I went back I wondered if they'd take my passport away.
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My father always says that heroism is in the Pashtun DNA.
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A video taped stage performance is just - you know, it's never gonna be the same as it is if you're sitting there live in the theatre.
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Anything that is worth doing has been done frequently. Things hitherto undone should be given, I suspect, a wide berth.
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I go to the theater and dream. You learn your lines, and that gives you the security to allow the imagination and heart to come out.
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True praying has the largest results for good. Poor praying the least. We cannot do too much of real praying. We cannot do too little of the sham. If we would learn the wondrous power of prayer, we must not give a fragment here and there - A little talk with Jesus, as the tiny saintlets sing - but we must demand and hold with an iron grasp the best hours of the day for God and prayer, or there will be no praying worth the name.
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I'll tell you what I probably would prefer to happen less and less: actors that I know and respect in shampoo ads. Or modeling.
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I'm competitive with myself, but not with other people. I set goals for myself. I don't really care about winning or losing as long as I do my best.
