Lukas Foss Quotes
I still do not know where the notes will come from when I accept a commission for a new work.
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I have been offered a lot for my work, but never everything.
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Because I'm so hands on here at work and always looking at fabrics you have to be mobile and as comfortable as possible.
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In some Old Testament books, it's very evident that an editor has been at work. That's quite all right. It's part of the process.
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And the American public was able to make up their own mind whether this verdict was a just verdict or not. So I think there's a lot of value in the public being able to see how the system works or doesn't work, so I think there's a definite value there.
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Sofia Coppola is wonderful, and I'd love to work with her.
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Grief is a terrible, painful place. You can't grind away on grief in a solid way and say, 'I'm going to work on this until it's over' because it will be with you for the rest of your life, whatever you do. So, you deal with it and move on.
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Too much work, too much vacation, too much of any one thing is unsound.
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When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
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I go where the material is, and I feel like I'm looking for really strong directors. That's the key ingredient. There are some directors I would move the sun and earth for, or stop the rotation of the planets, just to work with them.
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I like elegance. I like art nouveau; a stretched line or curve. These things are very much in the foreground of my work.
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But 18 years after the passage of the Civil Liberties Act, there still remains unfinished work to completely rectify and close this regrettable chapter in our Nation's history.
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I spend a lot of time talking to women interested in office about how they can make it work.
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People say, 'How does having kids change your writing? Do you see the world through their eyes?' No - you just become a faster songwriter... In the old days, you'd be like, 'Oh I'm gonna work on this song for a few days.'
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I've never been someone that was sort of blessed with an innate talent of just being able to do things. I had to work at it and learn from mistakes.
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Homer's work hits again and again on the topos of the inexpressible. People will always do that.
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I simply seem to drift. But I sort of allow the drift, because it has a kind of check – it forces me to work harder at what I'm interested in.
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The kind of people that all teams need are people who are humble, hungry, and smart: humble being little ego, focusing more on their teammates than on themselves. Hungry, meaning they have a strong work ethic, are determined to get things done, and contribute any way they can. Smart, meaning not intellectually smart but inner personally smart.
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When people recognize your work and want to reward you for what you've done, that's a good feeling.
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His work isn't all glower. Even though he hasn't smiled in a movie since the underrated 'Proof' in the early 1990s, Mr. Crowe is given to a hurt swallow when he's uncomfortable and to a look of suffering in his eyes.
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I do like to buy my own clothes because I like to support designers. I know the work that goes into it.
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I was elected to come to an incredibly dysfunctional capital and make the government work better, and that's what I'm doing.
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Every thought we think is creating our future.
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I think music is so diverse today, and bands are so diverse. If you were a rock band in the Eighties, you kind of had to stick to one thing. Now, in this age of Coachella and European festivals and stuff, it's kind of anything goes, so that allowed us to try different things.
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I still do not know where the notes will come from when I accept a commission for a new work.
