Lucy Walker Quotes
I don't know if people realize how hard I work, because sometimes people ask me for my secret. The truth is that I don't have any secrets apart from the fact that I've been directing theater and film for twenty years and trying at every stage to make my work better.
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I think of other artists as generous when I get inspired by their work. That's why I like curating. You don't want to take someone else's art and have your way with it. You've got to be respectful of them.
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My wife and I were both very engaged in trying to defeat Trump. We knocked on doors in three states.
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Of course we wish that more people involved in the leak of my true CIA identity had been prosecuted, but the system worked.
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People are predominant in my paintings. Although they are not obvious, you can feel their presence.
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The biggest thing is education for young chefs and how they should focus on one cuisine rather than trying to imitate too many. It's like art - you can see the cycles from many past artists and new artists being inspired by past artists.
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I used to sit in front of McDonald's and ask people for dollars to get me a cheeseburger. It was bad.
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If you want to accomplish twice as much, you have to work twice as hard.
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South Africans are caring, compassionate and loving people.
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Look at the structure of the Gates Foundation and this idea that, rather than trying to solve these huge global problems through institutions with some kind of democracy and transparency baked into them, we're just going to outsource it to benevolent billionaires.
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The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.
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I was elected to the Senate in 2010 by people worried about our country, worried about our kids and their future.
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I want to know what people thought and what they wore and what they ate for breakfast.
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I think people have to set up little battles. They have to demonize people whom they disagree with or feel threatened by. But it's the ideological framing of the debate that scares me.
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It's human nature to want to be with other people.
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I've always been interested in moments of disbelief... I don't know if they possess any magic, but they do have something.
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History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.
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I love mispronunciations. I love when people mispronounce things.
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You can't live in a dialect without tremendous work. Like any muscle, accents and voices and languages are all formed out of the muscles that we have in our mouths and faces and tongues.
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Most recently we've been working in concert situations rather than clubs. because there aren't too many rooms there like Ronnie Scott's, that are pure music rooms, where people come specifically to listen to music.
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If it weren't for this, I'd probably be working a normal job and playing on the weekends for 10 people at the Irvine Spectrum.
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Women look at the full measure of the man, not just one comment.
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There are so many times and places in history in our world that I just don't know anything about, and when I learn about them they're always fascinating.
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We are all seduced by charismatic people, whether it's in your office or in the bus or in the train. There are people who just, like, come through the door, and everybody turns around and looks at them and feels drawn to them.
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I don't know if people realize how hard I work, because sometimes people ask me for my secret. The truth is that I don't have any secrets apart from the fact that I've been directing theater and film for twenty years and trying at every stage to make my work better.
