Jack Thorne Quotes
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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Surely it is time to examine into the meaning of words and the nature of things, and to arrive at simple facts, not received upon the dictum of learned authorities, but upon attentive personal observation of what is passing around us.
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I started acting when I was seven. And I went to a local drama school which is very well-known in London. Because of that, I started getting jobs, and I worked all the time as a child, pretty much non-stop.
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I dare anybody to look at me and say I'm anorexic. I'm so totally not.
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You can condemn and criticize religion... all those things are fine, but you can't mock and disrespect people.
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Even the worst Bond movies, there's something to love about them.
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I have to admit that I can't take a whole fig and eat it on its own as I would a peach or mango. It's just too much.
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The Wild West attracts cowboys. A sheriff is a good thing.
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I've seen articles suggesting that Wal-Mart buys at prices lower than our competitors', and that this gives Wal-Mart an unfair advantage. I don't believe it... What we hear is concern that in some circumstances, Wal-Mart may actually be paying more than our competitors.
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I don't want to hear about my death.
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Complex tasks are often better handled in the back of our mind, and that's often true of creative tasks - when you have something complex to deal with in writing or research or responding to an email. I'll start working, put it aside, and sometimes I'll wake up the next morning with a solution, or I'll find one when I exercise.
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Gregory Hines was the most talented man I've ever met or seen. Gregory Hines is one of those people that whenever he talked to you, you felt like you were the center of the universe.
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I've actually had a copilot come out of the cockpit on a trip from L.A. to New York and ask me about Charles Manson.
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There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
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I am haunted by what my life would have been had I not had the courage in my early twenties to leave Pittsburgh for New York City and really commit to being a writer. Pittsburgh is both post-industrial and provincial, and the opportunities there are limited. It would have been quite easy to simply drift through life.
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Self-exploration is very painful, but unless you do that, you will never know who you are and who you want to be.
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I enjoy my work too much to force-feed myself with pressure.
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The more one analyses people, the more all reasons for analysis disappear. Sooner or later one comes to that dreadful universal thing called human nature.
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I find small talk exhausting, and I don't like myself when I'm around people.
