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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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
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I fight cynicism. It`s too easy. It`s really boring. It`s much harder to be positive and see the wonder of everything. Cynicism is a bunch of people who aren`t as talented as other people, knocking them because they make them feel even more untalented.
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No other country in the world gives protection like that, but it is not absolute protection. People sometimes meet that high burden and win libel suits, and in those cases I think they ought to win.
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I was one of the first American rock n' rollers in the '50s to go to many foreign countries. It's a wonderful thing to go out and spread joy and love rather than hate.
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People that were in my life for a long time turned sinister and tried to control me, and all kinds of weird stuff happened. But there was no conscience involved; that threw me more than anything.
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I often say after eight years in Washington, I longed for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood.
