Marlo Thomas Quotes
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.
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What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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Tone is somewhat totalising in that, once I locate it, it tells me what kind of syntax to use, what word choices to make, how much white space to leave on the page, what sentence length, what the rhythmic patterning will be. If I can't find the tone, I sometimes try narrating through the point of view of someone else.
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Some people write heavily, some write lightly. I prefer the light approach because I believe there is a great deal of false reverence about. There is too much solemnity and intensity in dealing with sacred matters; too much speaking in holy tones.
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I get a choice every time I have to open my mouth: that it can be with civility and dignity and grace - or not.
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I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
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I studied chord theory and started playing the piano.
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I'm just someone who marvels at God.
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I come from a family of refugees. I'm used to surviving and going with the flow, and what happened to me was just life.
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I feel that the world is increasingly about the bottom line, and not so much about human respect or human dignity. In that regard, people who care about other people will not be in a position to make choices and do things that other people who they're competing against will get to do.
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The good people look for challenges. When teaching becomes a prestigious profession, then you'll get good people.
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I know it's a guy thing to chest bump, but me and my dancers chest bump before hitting the stage. Not too hard though...ouch!
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Sometimes street knowledge can be as important as book knowledge.
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I played didgeridoo from a young age - on the vacuum cleaner, initially.
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I placed my new novel, 'The Book of Lost Fragrances', in Paris, knowing it would be a challenge. But the book belonged in the city that is one of the greatest perfume capitals of the world and has been since for more than three centuries.
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Let me be the first to say I can't remember ever having a conversation about the definition of consent when I was a kid. I knew that 'no' meant 'no,' but that's it.
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I think who you are in school really sticks with you.
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It's incumbent on us to reach beyond the confines of the institutions that traditionally produce art and find new ways to get it to the people.
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The crowds treat me like my last name. When I go onstage people usually stand up, I never ask them to, but they do. They stand up and they don't know how much I appreciate it.
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I had a teacher in college who drastically changed the course of my life by telling me that he believed in me as an actor. I never received that support before, and it inspired to me to such a degree that I never looked back. He taught me that it's okay to be crappy; it's okay to fight; it's okay to go to any length.
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One of my favorite days, yes. All day, massaging Harrison Ford. That was rough.
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People really want to do something good. You just have to show them where it is.
