Luke Grimes Quotes
I've never done theater professionally. But I went to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, so I did some theater there.
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I'm French - it's less important. Meaning, I remain a Frenchman in America, but I adapt to American culture. I feel good there - but I'm still a foreigner.
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I believe nuclear energy in Jordan will be done in such a way where it is a public-private partnership so everyone can see exactly what's going on.
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I find it quite boring when people do things that are very considered and thought through. I like things best when they're just done because they're fun or beautiful, or simply because they are what that one person wanted to do at that one time.
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We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it's like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old - and that's the criterion by which I'll be selecting my judges.
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Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.
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When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
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We should work with the principle that a work that can be done at a lower level should never be escalated to a higher level.
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I don't feel that rap has been respected as an art form. Because people have seen rappers rap off the top of their heads, they don't think it is difficult.
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The thing that 'Glee' has successfully done that no other TV show has is that they're just honest - but they don't tell you what's right or wrong. They don't tell you what to agree with or what to believe in.
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They're not poodles, they're art.
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When we say Afro American, we include everyone in the Western Hemisphere of African descent. South America is America. Central America is America. South America has many people in it of African descent.
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Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s.
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Ninety-nine percent of the time, when it comes down to it, if I have the choice between a great role and seeing a new guy, I would probably go for the great role because I figure if the guy's really that great that he'll be around once I'm done with the movie.
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I have met hundreds of young people doing just what George Romney did: using a hand up in tough times to become part of the American Dream.
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When you make art, you get really invested in it. When art happens by accident and you were just along for the ride? It's way more fun.
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The kind of people that all teams need are people who are humble, hungry, and smart: humble being little ego, focusing more on their teammates than on themselves. Hungry, meaning they have a strong work ethic, are determined to get things done, and contribute any way they can. Smart, meaning not intellectually smart but inner personally smart.
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In life and art, there are distinctions to be made between what an act of cruelty consists of.
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Israeli interests are not necessarily in harmony with the American interests.
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I have either run private equity funded companies or been a partner in a private equity fund since 1982. I've had a front row view of the vital role private equity continues to play in building and keeping American businesses competitive in the global economy.
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I don't think about who the audience is for my books.
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The challenge to me as a director was for the audience to see the film as going on in a straight line, so that they did not sense all of these break-ups. I did not want a film to be a collage of all these images.
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Think about all of the non-entrepreneurial advice and resources you need when building a company. You need lawyers, accountants, financial experts.
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People don't want to see clothes, they want to see something that fuels the imagination.
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I've never done theater professionally. But I went to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, so I did some theater there.
