Dave Thomas Quotes
What people forget is that every movie that gets made keeps making money for somebody FOREVER.
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The future is much like the present, only longer.
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I know some black actresses who have to wait every 19 films for a role. I can be cast in practically every one as a young white male.
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I don't want to talk about negative, dark things. The only thing I've got against stuff like Marilyn Manson is, they make unbelievable videos and unbelievable images.
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When it comes down to it, Hillary Clinton will very much excite the Republican faithful to get out and work hard. I don't know if a similar case can be made if Obama is the candidate.
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I had one girl tell me last night that I'm the greatest thing ever, that she wants to aspire to be me. Just stuff like, 'You're my idol. I love you.' It's awesome. It's what it's all about.
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Whatever they did for democracy, the U.S. interventions in the Middle East and the vaunted Arab Spring have proved to be pure hell for Arab Christians.
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I grew up in a village of 12 houses. We had a well and a cow.
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I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.
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I received free health care.
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I don't want to paint a picture of total gloom and doom.
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Socialism is practical, in the best sense of the term; a living, vital force of inestimable value to society.
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The best thing I can say is professional football is a business. When they are recruiting football players, they are not recruiting model citizens. Everybody has to be aware of this. What's being selected for the NFL is the ability to play and perform on Sunday afternoons. Everything else is secondary.
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If you're overfishing at the top of the food chain, and acidifying the ocean at the bottom, you're creating a squeeze that could conceivably collapse the whole system.
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We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do.
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There has got to be more to life than being a really, really, ridiculously good actor.
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Watching 'Girls' has just given me renewed courage.
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My thinking is lot more different with many actresses in the industry. I don't understand why people in showbiz put their profession of acting in the back seat after marriage.
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For me rappers and dancers are poets and artists and often times the most interesting performances are given by them.
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…all heroes and heroines trying to approximate, through barriers of pigmentation, to the Hebraico-Caucasian norm of Hollywood
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When you're teaching creative nonfiction, it helps to have written about your life in a very open way, because you can say, 'Look, how much are you willing to risk emotionally to write? How careful can you be with the other people you're writing about?'
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Kate Mara is actually one of my really good friends.
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That's the perfect audience: singing along to every word, knowing the songs, appreciating the non-hit songs, stuff like that.
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Our greatest misfortunes come to us from ourselves.
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What people forget is that every movie that gets made keeps making money for somebody FOREVER.
