Luke Ford Quotes
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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I like to think I'm quite brave. I stand up for myself.
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The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.
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I want to do an American 'Umbrellas of Cherbourg.'
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I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.
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It really is no different in the way that we make records and shoot music videos. I don't think of the movie as being a great leap out of my current profession.
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I'm interested in personalities, not political parties.
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People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
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The art world is a very prissy little thing over in the corner, while the major cultural forces are being determined by techno science.
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Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.
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Fame is a delicate and dangerous creature; I saw people who didn't honor it, who refused to take responsibility for it, get destroyed by it. I also saw that stardom in and of itself was empty.
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We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely prescribe its properties a priori.
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When you're rich you don't write checks.
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The nearest approach I have ever seen to the symmetry of ancient sculpture was among the Arab tribes of Ethiopia. Our Saxon race can supply the athlete, but not the Apollo.
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People, when they come up to me, are like, 'Did we go to high school together? Or did I make out with you at sleepaway camp?' And oftentimes, yes, that is the answer, because I went to a giant high school and made out with everybody.
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We run to win, not just to be in the race.
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Which country in the world has the kind of talent India has in numbers?
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If you never give up, you'll be successful.
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The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.
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I wouldn't want to try to adapt something of my own. It would be like going back to school and doing all my exams again.
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Stand-up came naturally to me because people in Ireland talk. But that's not talking on panel shows; it is structured fun. It reminds me of some tragic aunt clapping her hands and bouncing into a room and announcing we should all play games... and if we don't we are all a rotten spoilsport.
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My total year's income from working as hard as I possibly could from writing went from like $30 one year to about $70 the next year. And it made me realize that maybe you couldn't really pay the rent that way.
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The snappier lyrics come when I'm feeling really good and up. A lot of times, they come after I've just had a meeting with somebody that was uplifting, and you get home, and you're feeling playful or upbeat or whatever, and then they just seem to pop right out.
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One in 150 kids is autistic these days. The autism spectrum is growing.
