Jack Thorne Quotes

I'm a constant idiot in conversation - I always seem to sound either smug or stupid. Writing plays was a way of winning the conversation by controlling the conversation.

Jack Thorne

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• When I meet someone who I really admire, I enjoy nothing more than trying to connect with them and asking them about their career. I want to know who the people are behind the performances and how they relate to their performances. But it's maybe not as novel as it once was.

  

  Jack Reynor
  • People
  • Trying
  • Career

• I think there's no greater healing power than music.

  

  Irvin Mayfield
  • Music
  • Power
  • Healing

• What I remember most about high school are the memories I created with my friends.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • School
  • Friends
  • Remember

• I love a real-life, movie moment in living color.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Life
  • Real
  • Movie

• I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Good
  • Great
  • Believe

• When you begin to write poems because you love language, because you love poetry. Something happens that makes you write poems. And the writing of poems is incredibly pleasurable and addictive.

  

  C. K. Williams
  • Poetry
  • Write
  • Poems

• A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Man
  • More
  • Dinner

• There are certainly things labels can still provide that indie artists can't. They can pave the way to radio and pay big bucks for promotion.

  

  Sam Tsui
  • Way
  • Radio
  • Promotion

• When I was 20, I thought anyone in the music business over 25 is past it. Then at 30, you think anyone still doing it at 35 is ridiculous. Suddenly, you find yourself at 48 and still doing it, so I don't know what to say, really.

  

  Vince Clarke Erasure
  • Music
  • Business
  • Past

• Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

  

  Karl A. Menninger
  • People
  • Love
  • Give

• R. Kelly is a thing on TV, but nobody knows Robert and what he's been through.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Been
  • Nobody
  • Through

• Normally I don't watch myself, because I'm not very objective.

  

  Nancy McKeon
  • Myself
  • Watch
  • Objective

• I don't trust Santa Barbara as far as I can spit. I am afraid that if I went back there, it's possible that I could be run through their system, their judicial system, and wind up in some county jail where I could be killed and I'm not gonna take that chance.

  

  Randy Quaid
  • Up
  • Trust
  • Chance

• Let's just say, if I weren't a model, I'd be a walking collage. I see my body as a blank canvas that's aching to be decorated; I find it all very fascinating.

  

  Abbey Lee Kershaw
  • Body
  • Model
  • Walking

• I am an artist, and I have the ability and the free will to choose the way the world will envision me.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • World
  • Artist
  • Ability

• If you hear me out, I believe you'll discover that what motivates me more than any other issue is the defense of everyone's rights.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Believe
  • Me
  • Rights

• We were on the cover of Women's Wear Daily, which was hardly rock 'n' roll, but it pleased me.

  

  Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
  • Women
  • Rock
  • Daily

• Before mobile phones, I used to call my parents from a phone box and reverse the charges.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Parents
  • Call
  • Phone

• Ever since childhood, I've been interested in history and myth. Not just the facts and figures of the past, but everything that contributes to shape our perception of an age: architecture, art, literature and so forth.

  

  Anne Fortier
  • Art
  • History
  • Age

• Muhammad Ali - he was a magnificent fighter and he was an icon... Every head must bow, every knee must bend, every tongue must confess, thou art the greatest, the greatest of all time, Muhammad, Muhammad Ali.

  

  Don King
  • Time
  • Art

• Every time I flicked channels, there I was, talking. I was talking too much and writing too little. So Naomi and I went to Hawaii. The phone was cut off and we lost touch. This gave me the chance to have a good think about my life.

  

  Joe Eszterhas
  • Life
  • Time
  • Good

• Think 'Game of Thrones.' In the old days, this sort of show might be considered bad writing. It doesn't really seem to be moving toward a crisis or climax, it has no true protagonist, and it's structured less like a TV show or a movie than a soap opera.

  

  Douglas Rushkoff
  • Writing
  • Bad
  • True

• Those emotions that are really strong, the ones that inspire a song, you can hold onto that. You can let it marinate for years and keep writing about it even better than you did then.

  

  Frankie Cosmos
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Strong

• I'm a constant idiot in conversation - I always seem to sound either smug or stupid. Writing plays was a way of winning the conversation by controlling the conversation.

  

  Jack Thorne
  • Writing
  • Winning
  • Stupid