Lukas Foss Quotes
In the nineteenth century the more grandiose word inspiration began to replace the word idea in the arts.
Quotes to Explore
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'Heroes' really changed the game for me in a way that nothing before it had.
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In America, people think being South Asian is still kind of exotic. When you go outside New York and Chicago and L.A., there are people who have never tried Indian food... they've never even tasted it!
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I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them.
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It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.
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All my life I had feared to-morrow, until I decided to have faith and to live to-day in courage.
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Did anyone ever have a boring dream?
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In the end, you have to write like you're not afraid of the critics.
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Judge Sotomayor is a liberal judicial activist of the first order who thinks her own personal political agenda is more important that the law as written.
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Citizens United opened a door that's frustrated anyone who's looking.
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I always fall in love with qualities of people I work with.
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I'm a big fan of the 'Rocky' series. Given the chance, I'd love to meet Sylvester Stallone. But apart from boxing, I'm an ardent fan of tennis and football.
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We need to write books that publicists and marketers and booksellers and book club leaders and librarians and readers can get excited about. That have something about them that makes them stand out. That makes them shine.
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My retiring days are behind me – they're going to have to throw me out now.
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At the heart of every great movie is conflict. It's the same with a meeting. There should be conflict and tension.
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Because I've done a lot of theater, I know what power is and how megalomaniacs are, since I've certainly played some.
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Jazz vision is the fusion of music and art a real paradox of same-yet different. Here we play in exchanges, like the hardness of the key of c# major and from the softness of Db major - capturing, reflecting and improvising.
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Having the chance to walk at New York Fashion Week for Yeezy and Milan Fashion Week for Alberta Ferretti and Max Mara in a hijab is so significant. It sends a message to young women everywhere that you can be beautiful for just being you.
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I'm always writing and learning. It's about growth. So I'm growing as a musician, as a guitarist.
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Just as Pollock used the drip to meld process and product, Richter 'found' and used the smudge and the blur to ravish the eye, creating works of psychic and physical power.
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The ends justifies the means.
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I lost 100 pounds and embraced theater and music as what I was going to make for the rest of my life.
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Hide your kids, hide your wife, don't change the channel, this is monday night raw and The Miz is the WWE champion.
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In the nineteenth century the more grandiose word inspiration began to replace the word idea in the arts.
