Lucy Walker Quotes
I've always been a fiction filmmaker and I've been heading in the direction of fiction filmmaking, doing documentaries along the way.
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Dear London, British fashion is a serious business. The British fashion industry is worth £21bn to the U.K. economy and employs 819,000 people across the country. With your help, we would like to see these numbers rise for the good of our industry, our talented designers, and our reputation worldwide.
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Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state.
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I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.
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I'm Irish on St. Patrick's Day. I'm Italian on Columbus Day. I'm a New Yorker every day.
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It is the easiest thing in the world to die. The hardest is to live.
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When the British became Christian, Christianity in no way altered their political organisation.
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I believe the Thai people are patient, and the people at least give me a chance to prove my ability to help them.
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I actually have no style whatsoever. I'm the worst. I have people I talk to, and I say, 'Please tell me how to dress because I don't know what I'm doing.' The biggest thing for me is my mom. I'm like, 'Mom, do I look good?' If she says yes, I'm good to go.
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But I think we need to remember that democracy everywhere is by its nature incomplete, a work in progress.
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I thought I would be Sheena of the Jungle as a little girl.
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The only reason I'm ever in character as 'Larry The Cable Guy' is because that's what I'm hired to do. In my movies, obviously they hired 'Larry The Cable Guy' to be 'Larry The Cable Guy.' When I do my shows, I'm 'Larry The Cable Guy.' When I do Jay Leno, it's: 'Please welcome 'Larry The Cable Guy.'
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You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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There's another film - a little Greek movie - that hopefully is going to get some distribution here in the U.S., called 'Worlds Apart,' where I also play a 60-year-old guy who looks a lot like J.K. Simmons, who has a romantic relationship with an appropriate woman.
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It's an odd mix, the life of a playwright.
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Composition has almost always been solitary.
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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
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Writing 'We Are Never Getting Back Together' was one of the most hilarious experiences I have ever had in the studio because it just happened so naturally.
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I'm a big fan of all styles, even Biggie and Wu-Tang, but I gotta do my thing.
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What I often do is just think of a completely obtuse thing to do, almost the wrong thing to do. That often works because you start a different approach, something no one has tried.
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The first type of judgement is the type where judging you is the end goal... But in fact there is a second much larger class of judgements where judging you is only a means to something else.
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The brands that choose to use me, my agency and social media have given me a face and a voice.
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If Abstract Expression reached for the sublime, Pop turned ordinary imagery into icons. Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol illuminated the transformative power of context and the process of reproduction. Claes Oldenburg's soft ice-cream cones and hamburgers changed sculpture from hard to soft, from stasis to transformation.
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If Britain was to close down altogether overnight, then China would take up the slack of carbon emissions in two years. If America closed down, just the growth in China's emissions would replace America's emissions in 12 years.
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I've always been a fiction filmmaker and I've been heading in the direction of fiction filmmaking, doing documentaries along the way.
