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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A love of books has opened so many doors for me. Stories have inspired me and taught me to aspire.
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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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I was raised in an observant Jewish household, so for me, Hebrew prayers - the sounds, the sunlight streaming in from the stained-glass windows of a synagogue - bring my father back to me as surely as if he were sitting next to me, my head pressed against his shoulder.
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I think my first thought on reaching the summit- of course, I was very, very pleased to be there, naturally - but my first thought was one of a little bit of surprise. I was a little bit surprised that here I was, Ed Hillary, on top of Mt. Everest. After all, this is the ambition of most mountaineers.
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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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There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.
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I don't feel like literature has the power to alienate. I think that's something people feel if they don't connect with a work of art. But I don't think a work of art can actively reject the person who's looking at it or reading it.
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I'd love to be the new Jools Holland, but you know, for, like, cooler people.
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Black Sabbath wasn't like the Bon Jovis of the time. We were just a bunch of guys that were against the grain of society. And we sung about things that people thought back then.
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I find small talk exhausting, and I don't like myself when I'm around people.
