Debi Thomas Quotes
Just because you didn't start out perfect doesn't mean you can't have an excellent result in the end.
Quotes to Explore
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Life is not easy for anyone. You have to have ups and downs. You can make mistakes. You learn and try not to make them again. That's pretty much my principle.
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It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt.
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My dad always said, 'Don't worry what people think, because you can't change it.'
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A good stand-up, you lead the audience. You don't kowtow to the audience. Sometimes the audience is wrong. I always think the audience is wrong.
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I asked my parents for permission to study in America and they were so sure that I wouldn't get in and get a scholarship that they encouraged me to try. So I applied to Yale and got an excellent scholarship. I then worked for the Boston Consulting Group for six and half years.
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I don't like to make a big splash anyway.
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If most American cities are about the consumption of culture, Los Angeles and New York are about the production of culture - not only national culture but global culture.
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When an issue is so fraught with partisanship, a special counsel provides some modicum of transparency and accountability rather the the veil of politics.
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There's almost no author alive who isn't weathering the tumultuous changes in the publishing industry.
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I think politics today is all about false choices: You can have a robust energy economy and a challenged environment, or a great environment and no economy. That's a false choice. You can do both.
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I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter.
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As a comedian, I am obligated to tell you the truth, my truth. To share with you my beliefs, my perspective. And I think that we forget sometimes that that's the oath that comics take, that we will go up and share everything - the irreverent, the scary.
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About a year after leaving drama school or a year and a half - and I was working solidly ever since leaving drama school - I picked up 'Game of Thrones.'
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I love Indian food, and my favourite dish is dal rice.
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I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?
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I love being part of huge mega blockbusters, and I love being a part of small independent films and small stage.
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I have so many friends who have no idea what they want to do. They are out of college and working, but not sure they are doing what they want to do, which is normal.
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I feel like I'm witnessing the systematic destruction of a people's ability to survive. It's horrifying.
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Your cells are not working as hard as your dog's but harder than your horse's. The bigger the animal, the less energy needed to sustain a gram of tissue.
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Religion is all bunk.
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It's your job to come up with compelling characters who speak to an individual authenticity. If I'm not interested in the characters, I can't go on. I have to be fascinated by them.
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Imagination without knowledge may create beautiful things, knowledge without imagination can create only perfect ones.
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I did my first contest, and I got third, and my dad was, like, 'Wow, she has potential.' And I went back when I was 7, and I won. And my dad's like, 'All right,' and then he dropped everything.
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Just because you didn't start out perfect doesn't mean you can't have an excellent result in the end.
