Debi Thomas Quotes
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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I think India has several advantages in the knowledge sector, in the software sector.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute. So that view is very helpful to maintain a peace of mind because the main destroyer of a peaceful mind is anger.
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I think the next set of media companies are going to be created on the web and that YouTube is going to be a big part of that.
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Every so often when I'm writing, a character might actually be a distinct person in my head - often not an actor or a face, literally a person who just seems to exist in my imagination. Then the challenge is finding somebody who is close enough to that to make me feel like I've ended up where I wanted to be.
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Japanese people are not known for expressing their feelings through singing and dancing, but I like to sing a lot. I don't just sing to myself in the shower. I sing everywhere.
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There's a whole system in Hollywood where the director never speaks to the studio, but I like to engage them in a discussion. I listen.
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My dad would pick me up every other Friday at 6 o'clock and drop me off every Sunday at 6 o'clock, and I remember those last couple hours, like around 4 o'clock, my dad would get kind of sad because he knew that he was about to not see me for two more weeks.
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I normally don't endorse in Democratic primaries.
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We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.
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When I was a child - in wartime, pre-television - books were my life.
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Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting.
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As a writer, as much as I try, I can't stop writing female characters. They have so much more to offer; they have to wear so many different hats. There's so much wonderful gray matter in a female's life that it just makes for a stronger character.
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When I was first exposed to the films of Ingmar Bergman, I found them frank and disturbing portraits of the world we live in, but that was not something that displeased me. They were beautiful. I thought people would respond to my plays the way I responded to Bergman's films.
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Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.
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You have to stay on top and learn from mistakes.
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Enjoy every sandwich.
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My task is becoming more and more delicate, while the difficulties increase constantly.
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Eight hours of work, eight hours of play, eight hours of sleep - eight hours a day!
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We've long believed teachers know best what their students need to succeed, and that includes the creation of healthy, supportive school communities.
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I mean, I never liked being told what to do. It's one of the reasons I dropped out of school.
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I've got this thing with skating and school - to see how much I can accomplish.
