Lukas Foss Quotes
Most people think an artist tries to be original, but originality is the last thing that develops in the artist.
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Sometimes I try a Mai Tai. It's so fruity. It's a little embarrassing, but I like it.
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As a child, I remember my dad would sometimes drive me into town with him to play pinball machines together. It's a bittersweet memory but also a favorite.
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Every little action creates an effect: We are all interconnected.
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Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life.
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When I first started out, I was a bad actor.
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If you're going to sell stock and somebody wants to buy it at a price and that price is not a price you dictate, but demand dictates, sell it to them now.
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It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
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Any time there's a scandal, we always try and get involved.
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I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
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The only real indulgence was buying a house. That was a pretty big step.
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And we've got a toaster and everything. So there is no reason for the wedding.
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I think the key to a great romcom is to not fight against the genre. The trend more recently has been to apologise or be snarky, so it's an anti-romcom. Just lean in and embrace the fact it's a love story, and it's funny, and it's light. It can still be uber-smart and deal with zeitgeist issues.
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Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment.
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If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn't repel them.
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The press doesn't stop publishing, by the way, in a fascist escalation; it simply watches what it says. That too can be an incremental process, and the pace at which the free press polices itself depends on how journalists are targeted.
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A man notices a woman's figure when she walks in a room. Women have eight million words for blue; a man says dark blue or light blue.
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If I don't eat something after I work out, I get shaky and cranky - not a good combination when you're a television host.
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My favorite acting books are Stella Adler's 'The Art of Acting' and 'Sanford Meisner on Acting.'
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The lack of collective dignity felt by so many in the Arab world is the result of a combination of internal autocratic and corrupt regimes, with predictable ineffective and unaccountable governance, supported by external actors with short-term geopolitical interests.
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Interviewer: What would you like carved onto your tombstone? Banville: I'd rather not have a tombstone.
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It takes a motion to notion and it takes a notion to motion.
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I have no problem with women in the military, if that's what they want to do.
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Most people think an artist tries to be original, but originality is the last thing that develops in the artist.
