Jack Thorne Quotes
I struggle quite a lot in rehearsals, partly because I'm shy, partly because I still don't really understand the work that actors and directors do. I love the magic at the end, but the getting there - the wrong turns that are necessary to make something work - I find slightly beguiling and worrying.
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My brother is the former mayor of Baltimore.
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There's nothing that will change someone's moral outlook quicker than cash in large sums.
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We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
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The rebuilding of Iraq has been terrible.
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It isn't often that the logic behind a policy is so clear. But when it comes to the value of educating girls, the evidence speaks for itself.
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Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.
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Each book tends to have its own identity rather than the author's. It speaks from itself rather than you. Each book is unlike the others because you are not bringing the same voice to every book. I think that keeps you alive as a writer.
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About two hundred or two hundred and fifty years after the death of Grettir, his history was committed to writing, and then it became fixed - nothing further was added to it, and we have his story after having travelled down over two hundred years as a tradition.
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The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.
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I don't understand people who dream in black and white. I just don't get it. My dreams have always been vivid color.
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The name of the Redskins will remain the Redskins.
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I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.
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Singing and dancing is not just for the cast of 'Glee'. We can wake up doing both and have it be a natural expression of who we are.
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One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
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My mum never told me that I was beautiful when I was a kid – and I didn't read magazines or watch MTV, so I had no real consciousness about it all.
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Sometimes it's more difficult to achieve a 10% cost reduction than it is to tell people they have to achieve 50%. Small incremental steps block your view of doing something fundamentally different.
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Creativity is a mansion. If you're empty in one room, all you have to do is go out into the hallway and enter another room that's full.
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People often ask me, was it hard to play this person or that person? Well, no, not really. Acting is what I do. It's my job.
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The Buddhist view, 'takes the function of work to be at least threefold': 'to give a man a chance to utilize and develop his faculties; to enable him to overcome his egocentredness by joining with other people in a common task; and to bring forth the goods and services needed for a becoming existence.'
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I never thought I was going to leave the trap. I even told my mother, 'I'm gonna be the trap God.'
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We see the world through the lens of all our experiences; that is a fundamental part of the human condition.
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It's very important that when you have a designer like Marc Jacobs, who is a genius, you give him complete freedom.
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I struggle quite a lot in rehearsals, partly because I'm shy, partly because I still don't really understand the work that actors and directors do. I love the magic at the end, but the getting there - the wrong turns that are necessary to make something work - I find slightly beguiling and worrying.
