Lucas Hedges Quotes

I did a theater program the summer of my junior year, and that's when I really fell in love with the craft of acting. It became more about the craft and less about being a working actor.

Lucas Hedges

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• I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • Life
  • Time
  • Eye

• 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' is a masterpiece because it is an episodic novel that has a rigorous form - an unprecedented combination. From the very beginning we know the town of Macondo will endure only a century, so there is a limit to the length of the narrative.

  

  Edmund White
  • Beginning
  • Solitude
  • Limit

• Turkey is a safe country. Stay there.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Country
  • Safe
  • Turkey

• A liberal public is interesting to have as an audience. It is for that very reason that corporations make such an effort to ally themselves with cultural institutions.

  

  Hans Haacke
  • Interesting
  • Effort
  • Liberal

• Producing all my own songs and refusing to go to the hot producer. That's the biggest risk I've taken so far.

  

  J. Cole
  • Taken
  • Risk
  • Hot

• I have been, and will remain, outspoken in my insistence that Israel has a right to live in peace and security.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Live
  • Peace
  • Security

• Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education - I told my children not to worry about their grades but to enjoy learning.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Children
  • Education
  • College

• As a youngster, when I started writing and stuff, I did actually write more from other people's perspectives. When I hit 18 and something happened to me that hurt me, I discovered that writing the truth is really therapeutic and amazing.

  

  Sam Smith
  • People
  • Writing
  • Truth

• I do believe in the potential of like-minded people coming together.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • People
  • Believe
  • Together

• When you're editing, you're putting it together in a way that makes sense metaphysically. You're not inventing it, but you're finding the story that's there. You're making a play that's eventually going to go on stage and present itself to an audience. You want to show what happened, not exactly what you have evidence of happening.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Together
  • Present
  • Story

• Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek.

  

  Edmund Waller
  • Latin
  • Greek
  • Come

• We are so isolated in our own little worlds, in our own little geographies, that it's pretty hard to understand where someone else is coming from. And so I think that we have to really think about what that means as a country and, frankly, whether this segregation that we have is durable over the long run.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Long
  • Country
  • Think

• As the Cold War melts into history, our first concern should be the preservation and extension of human rights and democracy.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • War
  • History
  • Democracy

• When I was 16, I had a really big hit in the K-pop world. It was a hip-hop/R&B/pop song. I kinda strayed from that because of the writers I was hanging out with.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • World
  • Song
  • Big

• A European army must protect the continent from two sides, from the east and from the south, in terms of protecting against terrorism and migration.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Army
  • Sides
  • Terrorism

• I've been shy twice. Once when I saw Matthew Bomer and once when I saw Adam Levine. I couldn't say anything, literally.

  

  Yara Shahidi
  • Say
  • Shy
  • saw

• When I decided to work with Krishna Vamsi, people around me were apprehensive about my decision. They warned me that I shouldn't work with an unsuccessful director.

  

  Ram Charan
  • People
  • Work
  • Decision

• Without a musket to raise, a barricade to storm, a flag to wave, the question hit me in the face like the cold air: 'Who am I?'

  

  Gary Ackerman
  • Question
  • Storm
  • Flag

• I think everybody's ideal is to have a wonderful career with one franchise, like Kobe and Tim Duncan.

  

  Blake Griffin
  • Career

• Joy, shipmate, joy! Pleased to my soul at death I cry, Our life is closed, our life begins, The long, long anchorage we leave, The ship is clear at last, she leaps! She swiftly courses from the shore, Joy, shipmate, joy!

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Life
  • Joy
  • My Soul

• I actually did not have a date to my prom. I ended up taking a friend.

  

  Rachelle Lefevre
  • Up
  • Friend
  • Prom

• Never hurry. Take plenty of exercise. Always be cheerful. Take all the sleep you need. You may expect to be well.

  

  James Freeman Clarke
  • May
  • Sleep
  • Exercise

• The more I resist anything, the stronger it gets.

  

  Bellamy Young
  • Stronger
  • Resist

• I did a theater program the summer of my junior year, and that's when I really fell in love with the craft of acting. It became more about the craft and less about being a working actor.

  

  Lucas Hedges
  • Summer