Luke Perry (Coy Luther Perry III) Quotes
It's hard and sometimes it's scary. It still amazes my mother. I went home for Christmas one year and there were fans all over the front lawn, hoping to see me.
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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We only have a certain amount of energy for each day. If we use it for the wrong purpose, if we focus on the negative or dwell on whoever hurt us, then we're not going to have the energy we need for the right purposes.
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With the work that I do as a director, I've got dialogue, camera movement, and character blocking to help create a tone to the piece. In photography, those elements are somewhat void so that tone becomes a bit more subtle but still equally important.
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If you realize you aren't so wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you're wiser today.
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Yeah, I can't separate the art from the music and the music from the art. I think that stems from going to school for film first, and kind of stumbling onto music as my career.
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The Greek city-states politicised citizen and subject, creating institutions that were way ahead of anything in China or India. The politicians of antiquity exercised a political and military, if not economic, hegemony on the culture as a whole. The idea of democracy was first born and practised here.
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The more women serve in executive office, the more confidence they gain in themselves and that voters gain in them.
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I am a writer of the textbooks of scientology.
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Until I came out, my acting was all about disguise, and thereafter it became about telling the truth.
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I saw that nothing was permanent. You don't want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose it.
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Death is the beginning of something.
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I read my first P.G. Wodehouse when I was 12.
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I guess every character has a little bit of the actor - I guess for every character you play, the actor has to allow a little bit of their own character to show through.
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Before I got married, I dated the gamut.
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I had great mentors in my parents who always sought to understand the world around them. And they would push me to really think things through.
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I describe myself as an environmentalist not because I'm marching in the street with placards but because I like to be in the woods by myself.
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Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative.
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I try to make myself, and subsequently the audience, as uncomfortable as possible, whether it's completely desecrating a song they thought was one thing, or getting too drunk to really do a very good job.
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My dad was a Marine. He was one of the Montford Point Marines. Those are the equivalent of the Tuskegee Airmen for Marines. He's a tough, tough guy. When I was 15 we had a fight, and I didn't speak to him for 10 years.
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Some creative writing programs seem evil, but my experience at Irvine was totally the opposite, where I feel like they were really good at focusing in on each writers voice and setting. When I felt like I was obligated to write a story that was more typical, no one really liked it.
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One of television's great contributions is that it brought murder back into the home, where it belongs.
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A novelist is a man who doesn't like his mother.
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It's hard and sometimes it's scary. It still amazes my mother. I went home for Christmas one year and there were fans all over the front lawn, hoping to see me.
