Luke Bracey Quotes

I thought I'd be a professional rugby player or go to university and get some degree in construction.

Luke Bracey

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• I said it several times: a blow you are getting from a friend is still a blow, but more painful.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • You
  • Friend
  • Said

• Our international success started out first because we became the No. 1 casual wear brand in our home market of Japan. Then, we set up stores in the world's major fashion centers of New York, Paris and London.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • Up
  • World
  • Home

• I have great stories. I am going to write a book.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Great
  • Book
  • Stories

• It's not my job to be popular. I'm goal-driven; my job is to get results.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • Job
  • Popular
  • Results

• I would think about the outcome. Visualize sometimes. Because it never comes out the way you want it to. Fight the way I know how to fight. Whatever comes up, comes up.

  

  Larry Holmes
  • Up
  • Think
  • Want

• If you are good at studies, and you want to play cricket, you may work harder than any other person, but you may not achieve it. So it's something you have to balance in life and be practical where you are good and then channelise your efforts in the right direction to be successful in life.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • Life
  • Good
  • Work

• If my client calls me and says, 'I'm going to a friend's premiere,' I'll say, 'Come over and let's do something cute.' And I won't bill them for that.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Me
  • Friend
  • Cute

• I am not a hound; I am an attention-seeker. Very different animal. My kind of attention requires greater finesse.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Attention
  • Animal
  • Finesse

• I don't have any real spirituality in my life - I'm kind of an atheist - but when music can take me to the highest heights, it's almost like a spiritual feeling. It fills that void for me.

  

  Jack Black
  • Life
  • Music
  • Real

• You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

  

  Vance Havner
  • Death
  • Know
  • Lost

• Hearing my songs in public freaks me out a bit. There was one restaurant I really liked in L.A., but I had to stop going there when they started playing my music. It felt kinda awkward.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Music
  • Songs
  • Playing

• I feel like there's so much darkness in all of my books.

  

  Rachel Cohn
  • Like
  • Feel
  • Darkness

• I want the world to get a feel of me, showing them the way I am and the way I get down.

  

  Young Buck
  • World
  • Feel

• Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition.

  

  Florida Scott-Maxwell
  • Life
  • Better
  • Seed

• On Nov. 5, 2012, my friend Elliott Carter died in New York at the age of 103. For me, he was and remains one of the most interesting figures of music history in the past century.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • History
  • Age

• You look at a guy like Lance Armstrong, and you have to be inspired. I sat next to Kirk Douglas the other day, and he's inspiring for fighting through his stroke.

  

  Ed Harris
  • Guy
  • Day
  • Fighting

• I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Me
  • Three
  • Bicycle

• Look, the justice system is made up of people. People have faults. It's not perfect.

  

  Nancy Grace
  • People
  • Up
  • Perfect

• When I read about Joyce, I realised that there was no eight-till-one in his life: it was 24 hours a day for him.

  

  Frank McCourt
  • Life

• It takes a long time to get to be a diva. I mean, you gotta work at it.

  

  Diana Ross
  • Time
  • Work
  • Long

• The majority of the members of the Irish parliament are professional politicians, in the sense that otherwise they would not be given jobs minding mice at crossroads.

  

  Flann O'Brien
  • Professional
  • Sense
  • Irish

• I trust microphones, speakers and recordings less and less, and no longer buy into the idea that I can recreate at home, or in my earphones, the experience of hearing live acoustic instruments. The orchestra is already a set of speakers that react differently to each player, each room and each concert - it's that high level of uncertainly and unrepeatability that I like. The music is just soaked into the walls of a room straight from the instruments - and it's a one-off deal. The alternative - left speaker, right speaker - is kind of a compromise.

  

  Jonny Greenwood Radiohead
  • Trust
  • Player
  • Compromise

• I've had loss in my life, and I like to think my mother's energy lives on in some faintly Buddhist way. I do find some comfort there.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Energy

• I thought I'd be a professional rugby player or go to university and get some degree in construction.

  

  Luke Bracey
  • Player
  • Professional