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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My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer.
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Success in war was the only success that counted; failure was a disgrace to be wiped out only by starting another war and winning it.
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I've never been against women. That anti-feminist rap is bogus. I think men should be nice to women, buy them diamonds.
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I always save a huge book for a flight, because then you read it at both airports and on the plane and by the time you get home you're a quarter of the way through and it doesn't feel so unmanageable any more.
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Well, the stuff that I liked growing up was AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, but I also liked the Beatles and guys like Cat Stevens and Elton John.
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It's not that I don't like other people - I do. I just don't like me.
