Fred Thompson Quotes
I often say after eight years in Washington, I longed for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood.
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Really, I prefer not to read my early books. Not that I don't like them, but I don't recognize myself anymore, like an old actor watching himself as a young leading man.
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Whatever notoriety Fall Out Boy used to have prevents me from having the ability to start over from the bottom again.
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Be happy that you're growing older, that you're maturing, that you're smarter, that you're wiser.
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I crave attention and adventure.
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What is the future of the woman's movement? How in the hell do I know? I don't run it.
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I had no interest in steroids. I didn't need them, and I didn't want them. I never wanted them. From the get-go, I've frequently mouthed off about their negative impact on the game.
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Music is powered by ideas. If you don't have clarity of ideas, you're just communicating sheer sound.
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When I was 12 or 13, I realised I was good, but I never knew how far I'd get.
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You can be vegetarian and eat fish. It's your choice, just say: 'I am what I am.' There are no hardcore divisions anymore.
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In writing 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars,' I had the freedom to go beyond the original script and add asides, soliloquys and even new scenes. The main characters all get a soliloquy or two - or in Luke's case, several.
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To make a successful film from a successful play is probably much more difficult than making one from scratch, just as any carpenter will tell you that it is more difficult to restore an old house than to build a comparable new one.
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At 23 it was all about acting. Today it's getting my kids to school, making sure that they've done their homework. I'm in my fifties, and I'm turning into a square.
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There was a time when I used to live in Spain that it went really crazy with drugs and stuff like that.
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I used to suffer from excessive pride. Well, I got over that one.
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The ideal of a pure phenomenology will be perfected only by answering this question; pure phenomenology is to be separated sharply from psychology at large and, specifically, from the descriptive psychology of the phenomena of consciousness.
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In case you haven't heard, my girlfriends and I have declared the summer of 2012 as the best summer ever. The best way to document said 'best summer ever' is with a good ol' disposable camera. Smile, click, move on! Nobody gets pic approval, and there's no time wasted gathering around the camera to analyze a moment that just happened.
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I'm trying to shut up and let my angels speak to me and tell me what I'm supposed to do.
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Twitter is a real addiction, like the color of it, the process of it.
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Caissa, the goddess of chess, had punished me for my conservative play, for betraying my nature.
Garry Kasparov -
The content of most textbooks is perishable, but the tools of self-directedness serve one well over time.
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People think that, somehow, size makes you uncoordinated or incompetent. There is a lot of size discrimination out there, and I see the difference in the way people treated me when I was 360 pounds versus how they treat me when I'm 290 - from the industry to day-to-day people on the street.
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This is what I do for fun - brainstorm about monsters!
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When you're acting, it's a fantasy already; maybe it's the costumes - I love it. It's so fun.
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I often say after eight years in Washington, I longed for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood.
