Fred Thompson Quotes

I often say after eight years in Washington, I longed for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood.

Fred Thompson

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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.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Man
  • Myself
  • Young

• Whatever notoriety Fall Out Boy used to have prevents me from having the ability to start over from the bottom again.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Hate
  • Deserved
  • Paul McCartney

• Be happy that you're growing older, that you're maturing, that you're smarter, that you're wiser.

  

  Walt Handelsman
  • Happy
  • Growing
  • Be Happy

• I crave attention and adventure.

  

  Eddie Cibrian
  • Attention
  • Adventure
  • Crave

• What is the future of the woman's movement? How in the hell do I know? I don't run it.

  

  Kate Millett
  • Future
  • Woman
  • Hell

• 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.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Game
  • Want
  • Negative

• Music is powered by ideas. If you don't have clarity of ideas, you're just communicating sheer sound.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Music
  • Ideas
  • Sound

• When I was 12 or 13, I realised I was good, but I never knew how far I'd get.

  

  Facundo Pieres
  • Good
  • Never
  • Far

• You can be vegetarian and eat fish. It's your choice, just say: 'I am what I am.' There are no hardcore divisions anymore.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Choice
  • Fish
  • Vegetarian

• 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.

  

  Ian Doescher
  • Writing
  • Freedom
  • Star

• 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.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • House
  • Play
  • Film

• 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.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • School
  • Done
  • Kids

• There was a time when I used to live in Spain that it went really crazy with drugs and stuff like that.

  

  Patricia Velasquez
  • Time
  • Live
  • Crazy

• I used to suffer from excessive pride. Well, I got over that one.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Pride
  • Got
  • Over

• 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.

  

  Edmund Husserl
  • Question
  • Psychology
  • Pure

• I've done nothing wrong. Some people just don't like me. Maybe I'm somebody that's easy to dislike, but I don't get it. Whatever. I'll do what I do.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • People
  • Done
  • Me

• 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.

  

  Candice Accola
  • Time
  • Good
  • Summer

• I'm trying to shut up and let my angels speak to me and tell me what I'm supposed to do.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Me

• You are in the field to defend the public interest, the financial truth for investors and the funds that should support the widow and the orphan.

  

  Clarence W. Barron
  • Support
  • Interest
  • Field

• In live-action, writing, production and editing happen in discrete stages. In animation, they overlap - happening simultaneously. This allows a real dialogue to occur between the writer, the director, the actors and the editor, and it makes the writing process a lot more collaborative and a lot less lonely.

  

  Michael Arndt
  • Writing
  • Real
  • Lonely

• I have a Tinder account. Now I've done Bumble, and I've tried this other one, and the way I justified it is that... because I'm on TV, I shouldn't be eliminated from participating in what's going on in the world. But people are always like, 'I can't believe you're on a dating app!'

  

  Eric Stonestreet
  • Dating
  • Account
  • Not Believe

• We often speak of domestic terrorism and hate crimes in the same breath, and there is a fine line between the two, and certainly overlap in some cases.

  

  James Comey
  • Hate

• I often say after eight years in Washington, I longed for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood.

  

  Fred Thompson