James Thomson Quotes
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During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
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That's one of the lucky things about getting the success later on. I know how I want to dress, I know what kind of house I want to live in, I just know more about myself, and that's true about the roles I want to play and what parts of myself I want to express. You're just more in touch with yourself.
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All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.
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Let me die because I do not want to see the sun again.
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I keep setting the bar higher for myself in terms of what I'm trying to accomplish.
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If you're beautiful, you're led to believe that you can't also be smart.
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In order to do 'Amores Perros,' I had to skip some time at drama school, so the director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu came up with a great Latin American solution, which was to say I had a tropical disease and had to stay in Mexico for a while. Everyone believed me.
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Many ethnic minorities chafed at the postcolonial nationalism of India and Pakistan, and some rebelled.
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Despite my excellent mood, I don't have any sympathy for Romney. If he'd been a good candidate he wouldn't have had a different campaign for every month on the calendar.
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I retreat to my cave in a very male fashion.
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I was just learning to play guitar when Tracy Chapman came out. She wrote these songs, she played them by herself and I so admired her for that.
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I was the Head Boy of East High School in 1999. I represent 303 - the area code, not the band - Mile High, until I die. I'm 31, a comedian; I juggle, but I don't glove it. I think waxed mustaches run a very thin line between hipster and 1800s barkeep.
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I'm a flamboyant type of guy, a cooler version of Liberace.
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The thing is, you never know with any movie how it's going to turn out. It's always a mystery - you'll do pages and pages of scenes that will never make it onto the screen.
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Humor is a part of spirituality.
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I can't imagine that I would have been cast in the role, without Jamie Lee giving me a thumbs up.
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How does it secure the blessings of liberty to our posterity, to those generations yet unborn, to kill them, aborting them in the womb?
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If I hadn't turned out to be a filmmaker, I would have been a musician.
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Pleasure causes us to do base actions and pain causes us to abstain from doing noble actions.
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Photographic data... is still and ESSENTIALLY THE SAFEST POETIC MEDIUM and the most agile process for catching the most delicate osmoses which exist between reality and surreality. The mere fact of photographic transposition means a total invention: the capture of a secret reality.
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Most of us live in parts of the world where we don't expect to see much, and we wouldn't necessarily notice things that are crashing.
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Peace is the happy natural state of man; war is corruption and disgrace.
