Top 100 Aca Lukas Quotes
#1. I've had offers to sign a record deal, but the people I've talked to have wanted to package me and have me meet with songwriters who've written stuff for Whitney Houston, that sort of thing. That's not at all my style.
Lukas Haas
#2. I was in Kansas for about a month, and we worked most of the time in a very small town, so it felt like the production basically took the whole town over. In a way, we were the Martians in Kansas.
Lukas Haas
#3. The one great exception to the apathy on reunification is, naturally enough, Berlin. Encircled by the hostile Soviet Zone for ten years, at times blockaded and constantly at the Russians' mercy, Berliners are committed to this one goal with a unique urgency.
J. Anthony Lukas
#4. Sometimes I can wake up and I can beat anyone.
Lukas Rosol
#5. Any man who bears the ability of a polymath shall not be interfered by specialty, he needs discipline to manage his behaviors and nurture his creativity.
Shawn Lukas
#6. In many times, after creating a piece of work I want to stand up and applaud.
Shawn Lukas
#7. Sky is grey, vegetation is plastic, and mankind is pale, for we have spent our days conceiving unnecessary tools for our arousal, and so we hide the nakedness of nature with brutal machinnes.
Shawn Lukas
#8. You are a very special child," the old handmaid said, stroking Eleonora's hair. "You know that don't you?"
Eleonora mumbled a yes.
"You know you are special, but I think that you aren't sure how."
She nodded. That was, indeed, the crux of it.
Michael David Lukas
#9. I'm bad when it comes to giving advice and best at expressing myself.
Shawn Lukas
#11. If you have fun doing something, you also take it seriously.
Lukas Podolski
#12. And the stains would never wash out. That's what Lukas was saying. She would always have hurt her father. Was that the way to phrase it? Always have had. It was immortal tense. A new rule of grammar.
Hugh Howey
#13. And Lukas would tell them to be good to each other, that there were only so many of them left, and that all the books and all the stars in the universe were pointless with no one to read them, no one to peer through the parting clouds for them. He
Hugh Howey
#14. Every single match, every single point, I have to concentrate.
Lukas Rosol
#15. I'll probably paint on this piano after I compose, for that will inspire me to make more awesome works.
Shawn Lukas
#16. The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.
D. Wayne Lukas
#17. How do you find a good Psychic? Go to Spiritualist churches, new age
Susan Lukas
#18. 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
#19. All writers, I think, are to one extent or another, damaged people. Writing is our way of repairing ourselves.
J. Anthony Lukas
#20. Before I gave birth to Lukas, I hadn't truly understood that painful, consuming, I-will-do-anything-to-save-this-human-being kind of love.
Lynsey Addario
#21. It is the element I miss in electronic music - no performance, no loving immersion. Maybe that is why I was never particularly drawn to electronic music.
Lukas Foss
#22. If there was a story about boys playing punk I don't think I would've made it, because it would just be the same, it wouldn't be interesting enough.
Lukas Moodysson
#23. Collaboration is key, it takes innovation and creativity to the next room.
Shawn Lukas
#24. It is obvious that anything a scientist discovers or invents is based on previous discoveries and inventions. The same applies to the arts.
Lukas Foss
#25. Material Girls was so different for me, I'd never done a teen movie.
Lukas Haas
#26. Simplicity is all but nothing that's there.
Shawn Lukas
#27. Lukas grinned at me. I didn't know how badass you are. That's kind of hot.
Lee Nichols
#29. It doesn't bother me that I won't be around one day," Lukas said after a while. "I don't stress about the fact that I wasn't here a hundred years ago. I think death will be a lot like that. A hundred years from now my life will be just like it was a hundred years ago.
Hugh Howey
#30. Yes, influences are enriching, and they can be found in every work of art, even the most original.
Lukas Foss
#31. Anybody can put things together that belong together. to put things together that don't go together, and make it work, that takes genius like Mozart's. Yet he is presented in the play Amadeus as a kind of silly boy whom the gods loved.
Lukas Foss
#32. I only see my goals, I don't believe in failure
Cause I know the smallest voices, they can make it major
Lukas Graham
#33. If the noun is good and the verb is strong, you almost never need an adjective.
J. Anthony Lukas
#34. To understand Mozart's contradictory qualities would indeed be to understand genius.
Lukas Foss
#35. When one's work hides behind simple, process is kind of long story.
Shawn Lukas
#36. A rainy day's a good day to be in bed with a good book or with someone whose read one.
T.K. Lukas
#37. A slippery fish, flashing scales in the water and a noble fighter on the line, but dull as lead at the bottom of the boat.
Michael David Lukas
#38. I'm remixing an R.E.M. track called 'I've Been High' from their last album, 'Reveal.' It's a beautiful song, but record execs didn't put it out as a single because it didn't sound like the R.E.M. we're used to. So I asked Michael Stipe if I could have the tapes to do a remix, and he agreed.
Lukas Haas
#39. Most people think an artist tries to be original, but originality is the last thing that develops in the artist.
Lukas Foss
#40. This is because she doesn't know about me picking a fight with Shruggy Jesus or rolling around topless with Lukas. My soul has already put on a blinker for the Hell exit, and now I live at hippie camp. That's like sending me into the express lane.
Emery Lord
#41. Any creator owes a debt to past creation.
Lukas Foss
#43. There is another interesting paradox here: by immersing ourselves in what we love, we find ourselves. We do not lose ourselves. One does not lose one's identity by falling in love.
Lukas Foss
#44. As I sit down and start to work, I often panic. I stare at the empty piece of music paper. How can I say that my piece will be ready for performance next January when I do not have a recipe for making it happen?
Lukas Foss
#45. It's cool to play a sinister bad guy who also has a human side.
Lukas Haas
#46. I needed to choose between the one thing that really filled m thoughts-my love for that woman-and losing my freedom and all the choices that the future promised me. To be honest, the decision was easy.
-Lukas Jessen-Petersen
Paulo Coelho
#47. It was a wonderful experience to work with Sylvia. She pushed me to be more powerful with my acting, and she told me scores of the most incredible stories I've ever heard. She is amazing.
Lukas Haas
#48. The fact that Stravinsky used the classics as a major influence is obvious. What is interesting is how he used them, how he turned Bach into Stravinsky.
Lukas Foss
#49. I like both music and acting, and they both have a lot in common - timing, immediacy, stuff like that. But acting is more regimented. You wait around for hours, you don't get to write the script, you get hired. Music represents me better. I'm not acting; I'm just expressing myself.
Lukas Haas
#50. A rainy day is a good day to be in bed with a good book - or with someone who has read one."
T.K. Lukas
T.K. Lukas
#51. I've been into music for a long time. I started playing drums when I was 8 and piano when I was 10, then bass and guitar when I was 18.
Lukas Haas
#52. Most artists have experienced the creative block. We get stuck in our work. We beat our head against the wall: nothing. Sometimes, it is because we are trying something at the wrong time.
Lukas Foss
#53. I also couldn't pass up the opportunity to be in the same movie as Jack Nicholson and Glenn Close.
Lukas Haas
#54. When I went back to visit my native Berlin after World War II, I noticed that the only thing I really remembered from my childhood Berlin days is the shoe store.
Lukas Foss
#55. I never had goals to be in the top 10 or top five in the world. I just try to find the borders, find what level I can reach. I have a good team around me, so hopefully it's going to get even better.
Lukas Rosol
#56. It's a cute little studio apartment that has just what I need: a bed, a couch, a table, a chair, and a coffee-maker.
Shawn Lukas
#57. Personality is essential. It is in every work of art. When someone walks on stage for a performance and has charisma, everyone is convinced that he has personality. I find that charisma is merely a form of showmanship. Movie stars usually have it. A politician has to have it.
Lukas Foss
#58. Anyone deserves a second chance, but not everyone deserves a second chance.
Shawn Lukas
#59. Serious drama in a significant degree began at Harvard in the 1880s. In 1881, the Cercle Francais initiated the annual French play, and shortly afterwards the German and Spanish clubs added their productions.
J. Anthony Lukas
#60. Composing is like making love to the future.
Lukas Foss
#61. We are not the people who made this world, Lukas, but it's up to us to survive it. You need to understand that."
"We can't control where we are right now," he mumbled, "just what we do going forward.
Hugh Howey
#62. When typography is on point, words become images.
Shawn Lukas
#63. I wear tweed jackets and button-down shirts. I am a 1955 graduate of Harvard University who drives a 1968 Mercedes.
J. Anthony Lukas
#64. So I think, as much as possible, I try to be open myself. I think that's probably something that falls with young people. It's not because I think young people are smarter, because I don't think they are. I think young people are quite actually stupid.
Lukas Moodysson
#65. One day when I was like 9, I heard the Beatles on the radio, and I asked my dad who they were. He told me they were the best band in the world, and I became obsessed. He started giving me their albums in sequential order, and I listened to them - and only them - until I was probably in high school.
Lukas Haas
#66. Well, I don't want to talk too much about my children, but a friend of one of my children, something really terrible happened to her. I just felt like I had to speak about growing up again, because I felt that there's no way I can talk about difficulties of life. I had to talk about possibilities.
Lukas Moodysson
#67. I think what draws me to young people is there is always this kind of openness that reacts very strongly to things. Sometimes when you get older, you react much less. That's also a reason why a lot of young people get hurt because if you're open, you're more subject to being hurt by things.
Lukas Moodysson
#68. I Came away from the U.S. Memory Championship eager to find out how Ed and Lukas did it. Were these just extraordinary individuals, pridigies from the long tail of humanity's bell curve, or was there something we could all learn from their talents?
Joshua Foer
#69. Great music does not just make me feel good. It means something. It makes us understand. It makes us happy.
Lukas Foss
#70. Balancing my film career and my music will be something I'm just going to have to deal with, as it happens. I think I can balance it out; the choices will probably be pretty clear. If there's a movie I just have to do, I will work the music around it.
Lukas Haas
#71. I love seeing people having fun. Everyone over in L.A. is too cool for it. That's the problem.
Lukas Haas
#72. Sometimes, how I said already, I just wake up and play good. And sometimes I'm so tired.
Lukas Rosol
#73. A human being is a real artist and a creative in any field, not a programmed robot in some factory.
Shawn Lukas
#74. I'd rather live one day as a lion
than live a hundred years as a sheep
I'd rather reign in Hell than serve in Heaven
live my dream out in reality and not in my dreams
Lukas Graham
#75. I've built an 8-track studio in my house that's virtually identical to what they used at Abbey Road, and I also own the 16-track set-up that Led Zeppelin used to record 'Houses of the Holy.' I'm interested in producing, but I'm mostly recording my own stuff.
Lukas Haas
#76. It's your Christmas present.
What is?
All this. The whole world. The houses, cars, streets, the wind... it's all yours. You can do what you like.
Sorry, but I'm not sure it's a good present. It's windy... ...there's a mist. It's so cold. And this world isn't that good.
Lukas Moodysson
#77. In choosing any role, I ask the same questions: what kind of part is it? is the role challenging? does the director have a vision? is the story moving? etc.
Lukas Haas
#78. Since age seven, I've been composing and have never stopped composing, yet, the creative process is as elusive to me as it has ever been.
Lukas Foss
#79. The study found that total HCA intake, and consumption of fried meat, beef, and processed meat were all correlated to precancerous damage to breast tissue (Rohrmann, Lukas Jung 2009).
Garth Davis
#80. On a low-budget film, you don't have all the luxuries.
Lukas Haas
#82. It's not because we knew" Lukas said, sucking a gasp of air. "It's because we did it.
Hugh Howey
#83. If one uses music that one does not really love, then one will not succeed in making it one's own.
Lukas Foss
#84. Aleksar Greene was a boy I used to play with. He was my imaginary friend.
Shawn Lukas
#85. My students frequently ask what their next project should be. My advice: immerse yourself in the music you love and you will find what you want to do; you will discover your next project.
Lukas Foss
#86. Every plain wall deserves a piece of work, so why not cover it with a smile?
Shawn Lukas
#87. For me, it's important to stay healthy more than it is to have one good victory.
Lukas Rosol
#88. For years that may mean imitation. Then, one day, it is like a door opening, and a new thought comes in. Why not try this instead. Suddenly he is doing something original, almost in spite of himself.
Lukas Foss
#89. Investors know that a major factor to investing success is the ability to go where others will not. That's where an investor will be able to achieve excess returns versus the overall market, if executed properly. However, the concept of contrarianism can be taken to extremes at times.
J. Lukas Neely
#90. This divergence of experience was not a stumbling block to conversation; indeed, it was what made the conversation interesting.
Michael David Lukas
#91. In the nineteenth century the more grandiose word inspiration began to replace the word idea in the arts.
Lukas Foss
#93. I don't dare postulate about science, but I know that it takes both emotion and intellect in order for art to happen.
Lukas Foss
#94. I worked with Lukas Haas a long time ago, when he was younger, and he was wonderful.
Campbell Scott
#95. A paint brush is the only tool I use extensively in my works, to push paint on canvas and conduct melodies. And that's exactly what Garden Avenue is, and all of my projects after that.
Shawn Lukas
#96. I had spent many years living with a plain piece of canvas just right on my face as a headboard for my bed. As the years passed by, I watched it slowly transforming into a work of art which still lives above my head. And that my friend, is truly living art.
Shawn Lukas
#97. Lukas would tell them to be good to each other, that there were only so many of them left, and that all the books and all the stars in the universe were pointless with no one to read them, no one to peer through the parting clouds for them.
Hugh Howey
#98. I've nothing against faith, Lukas, as long as it gives people spiritual support, comforts them, inspires them to do better.
Hanni Munzer
#99. That is why the analogy of stealing does not work. With a thief, we want to know how much money he stole, and from whom. With the artist it is not how much he took and from whom, but what he did with it.
Lukas Foss
#100. Would smashing Lukas's face into the doorjamb as he brushed past count as "sticking together," as long as he didn't let go afterward?
Amelia C. Gormley
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