Jack Thorne Quotes
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I've been following what's happening in Colombia because it's the country of my childhood.
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Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.
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The most important thing in the face is the eyes, and if you can make the eyes talk, you're halfway there.
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I always loved music, and I always wanted to make a film about it, but I could never do it because of the censorship that was around.
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I have a classic taste with a twist, because classic never goes away.
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Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?
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Write something beautiful and honest and that makes you very proud.
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At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.
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Architecture is undistinguished, sometimes derelict, but occasionally, as in 'Post and Beam,' there is something arresting in a setting... the building behind the Cathedral.
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The film 'Tapped' illustrates quite clearly how we've been getting 'soaked' for years by the bottled water industry.
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When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.
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Kosovo today is closer to Europe than other countries in the region of South Eastern Europe.
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What I discovered in Auschwitz is the human condition, the end point of a great adventure, where the European traveler arrived after his two-thousand-year-old moral and cultural history.
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Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.
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I'm very spiritual. I meditate every day. I don't know if that's surprising or not, but I've been doing that since I was 16 every day, so that's like kind of my thing. I'm really a hippie-chick at heart.
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The bad guys don't always get punished and the good guys are not necessarily pure.
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I feel like, growing up, I watched football, obviously, and you see great players, and as a fan, you want to watch the best you can possibly watch, and you want to see what's capable of being made.
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Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
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"You cannot believe what you are saying." "Well, no. Hardly ever. But the philosopher is like the poet. The latter composes ideal letters for an ideal nymph, only to plumb with his words the depths of passion. The philosopher tests the coldness of his gaze, to see how far he can undermine the fortress of bigotry."
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People say true friends must always hold hands, but true friends don't need to hold hands because they know the other hand will always be there.
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It's a shame in a way that people come and go with one album.
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Future benefits rarely figure in the minds of animals.
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It's not that I don't like other people - I do. I just don't like me.
