Jack Thorne Quotes
At my school, when kids went into the army at 16, they didn't do it in a gung-ho, Tom Cruise, 'Born on the Fourth of July' way. They were generally - and I hope this doesn't offend them - the more vulnerable members of the class. They enlisted seeking family, and they didn't always find it.
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I'm not shy or reclusive. I just spend my time with people rather than journalists.
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I think Dilbert is actually a radical strip.
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I've never been able to understand what they mean by 'Pinteresque,'. I'm sure it's indefinable.
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My paternal grandfather Rustom Mehta had a huge influence on me because of his ethics and his values.
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When something happens far back in the past, people often can't recall exact details. Blame depends upon point of view. There may be a villain, but reality is frustrating because it's often ambiguous.
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People don't like to vote against something that's so incredibly popular.
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We want to see Israel withdraw from our territory. But we don't want to be accountable vis-a-vis Israel on the security basis, because we don't see, in the absence of a peace agreement, that Lebanon can really be accountable to Israel if anything happens.
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When you read a comic book, there's a space between what's happening on the panel and what you have to literally see in your mind. That's not true of movies, where you see everything.
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I have always wanted to work with Lingusamy, as he is a master of commercial cinema. I have always admired his etching of female characters.
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I love this country very much, and I'm proud to live here, but I think our current administration is extreme. These are not merely conservative people, these are extreme right-wing people.
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I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
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The Nobel Peace Prize has always been a joke - albeit a grim one. Alfred Bernhard Nobel famously invented dynamite and felt sorry about it.
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In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.
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I don't feel I made any sacrifices at all. I'm doing my best to juggle.
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People who don't know me, how will they know what I am really like? They will only see me on the field, only see me in an advertisement. People who know what kind of a guy I am will tell you I'm a very open person.
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The unknown used to be really scary, just that fear of, 'What's next? What if I'm not prepared?' I just don't feel that way anymore. I feel like the best is yet to come.
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When a show has gotten as much attention as this one, everyone wants to join in with something to say.
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I don't know, the word 'famous' just sounds really weird to me, because I'm just me.
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You want to help gay kids, you have to reach them in middle school and high school, when they're being bullied.
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I do not love to work out, but if I stick to exercising every day and put the right things in my mouth, then my diabetes just stays in check.
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I don't think anyone looks into their family tree and expects it to come up smelling of roses.
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Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.
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When I started playing, there were no teams and no structure, so I had to play with the boys. I get very emotional when I think about the humiliation that I've suffered playing football.
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At my school, when kids went into the army at 16, they didn't do it in a gung-ho, Tom Cruise, 'Born on the Fourth of July' way. They were generally - and I hope this doesn't offend them - the more vulnerable members of the class. They enlisted seeking family, and they didn't always find it.
