Lusia Strus Quotes
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I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.
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When someone saves your life and gives you life, there's gratitude, humility; there's a time you've been so blessed you realize you've been given another chance at life that maybe you did or didn't deserve.
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It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.
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It's almost an impossible thing to get a movie made that is written by two actors who want to star in it, when no one knows who they are. The only time it happened that I know of was when Sylvester Stallone did it in 'Rocky.'
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I'm the Ali of today. I'm the Marvin Gaye of today. I'm the Bob Marley of today. I'm the Martin Luther King, or all the other greats that have come before us. And a lot of people are starting to realise that now.
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My father was a sort of John Wayne Texan who'd worked as a cowboy when he was young. He'd participated in rattlesnake round-ups and swum with copperheads.
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Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.
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The manic pursuit of success cost me everything I could love: my wife, my three children, some friends I would have liked to grow old with.
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I've got some gift for languages. You follow your gift. But Latin's not easy.
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I walk around every day with a radio playing constantly in my head, and this radio station plays a lot of hits. But it's all my songs, so that's something to be excited about 24 hours a day.
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You're blessed if you have the strength to work.
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No, I don't autograph blank slips, checks, or stickers, and certainly no books without me in them.
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Each week I try to have three lunches with my children, one working lunch, and one lunch with mates.
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Most of the people don't know that one of the great qualities of caffeine is it allows you to absorb nutrients, and it does it quickly, and so when it does it quickly, you focus, and when you focus, you think you have energy.
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You sometimes use the excuse, 'I'm a writer, dammit, I can do anything I want,' but that doesn't work.
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A nation' s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others.
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Satan's successes are the greatest when he appears with the name of God on his lips.
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I think I wanted to be a punk-rocker before I wanted to be anything else. I remember wanting a mohawk, and I wanted to cut the sleeves off of my jean jacket because I used to want to be Dirty Dan from Sha-Na-Na. This is before hip-hop was even around. I had the skinny piano tie. I had it, man.
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I don't startle easily.
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I hope someday to see California literature become a part of mainstream American literature, and I hope to be part of that process.
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Depression is the flaw in love. There's no such thing as love without the anticipation of loss. And that specter of despair can be the engine of intimacy.
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Authentic Christianity is a supernatural walk with a living, dynamic, communicating God.
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I don't call myself an artist. I act. That's what I do.
