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Lukas Foss Quotes

I strongly suggest that we play down basics like who influenced whom, and instead study the way the influence is transformed, in other words: how the artist made it his own.

Lukas Foss

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: composer
Nationality: german
Birth: August 15, 1922 - February 1, 2009

Topics

Words Influence Artist Down Play

I did a Coca-Cola commercial when I was about two and a half years old, and then me and my family were extras in a bunch of Westerns. I loved dressing up and stepping into this imaginary world, and it was fun to get outside of my tiny little town with a bunch of movie weirdos.

Jesse Plemons

Family Fun Me World Loved Outside

I was a homebody growing up.

Jennifer Hudson

Growing Up Growing Up Homebody

My back was just destroyed after pregnancy. I almost had to have surgery, until I did Pilates and rebuilt my body.

Melissa McCarthy

Body Back Pregnancy Destroyed Just

I'm not looking to do 'Half Nelson' next, but to play anything that's a little more complex is really fun.

John Krasinski

Fun Looking Play More Next Anything

Budgets are nothing if not statements of priorities.

Jeff Merkley

Priorities Nothing Statements Budgets

We're pursuing a strategic partnership with Afghanistan on the case of the United States and Afghanistan where we're going to push toward a future. It is the future that the Afghans desire with the United States. It is a future that the Afghans desire with the international community and we desire that as well.

John R. Allen

Future Community Push Partnership

My mother is black, from Grenada, so my blackness was always there, but It wasn't until I started hanging with the upperclassmen black actors at my high school that I really got my roots in being a black American, which is a distinctly different identity and experience.

Amanda Seales

Mother Experience School Identity

At MIT, I had the good fortune for seven years to teach network theory, which is basic to many disciplines, to one-third of the undergraduate student body. It was an experiment to see how high we could bring their level of understanding, and it exceeded all of my expectations.

Amar Bose

Good Expectations Understanding Body

I would love to do a really cool romantic comedy, perhaps with Hugh Grant. I think he is brilliant. That's the kind of film I love to go to see. I love 'girls' films'.

Sophia Myles

Love Romantic Cool Think Comedy Go

Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world.

Mary Shelley

Life Light Death Me World Dark

I used to have quite long hair, and I decided that I wanted to get it cut. I'd never met the person who did it, and she cut it into some kind of dreadful mullet. It looked like a triangle on my head. The other kids were merciless.

Jonathan Stroud

Hair Long Long Hair Person Kind She

When we played, World Series checks meant something. Now all they do is screw your taxes.

Don Drysdale

World Now Taxes Something Your