Lukas Foss Quotes
In the nineteenth century the more grandiose word inspiration began to replace the word idea in the arts.
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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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If you could find a way to peel back the skin of this world so to speak, would you really see this supernatural reality that is greater? Is it true that we fight not against flesh and blood but against principalities and powers? Every young person wants to know.
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From age 16, I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine.
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I survived only a year in Berkeley, partly because I declined to sign the anticommunist loyalty oath.
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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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I was really a spoiled brat when I was a kid skating. Meals are cooked for you, you are driven to the rink, they make costumes for you. Your parents sit around and watch admiringly while you skate. You don't have to think about anything but skating. You're just plain spoiled.
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I don't have one song that sounds like another one in my entire catalog.
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I'll never forget one time a fan came up to me crying, and told me, 'You really inspire me to be me. I feel OK to be myself now.'
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We cannot have a system that everything can be passed on to the final consumer in the garb of cost being recovered without being sensitive to their own problems and affordability.
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Marvin Gaye is an inspiration to me. He was one of the first Motown musicians that my mom and dad introduced me to, and I always thought it would be a good idea if I was ever an artist, and now I am, to make a record called 'Marvin Gaye.'
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In the nineteenth century the more grandiose word inspiration began to replace the word idea in the arts.
