Frank Thomas Quotes
I come from good stock. Both of my parents are big - my dad is a big guy; my mom is a big lady.
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I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.
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People think because I've got some success, I've made it, but in my eyes it's like, 'How long has Jay Z been in the business? How many albums has he got?' Not that I'm trying to be Jay Z, but I am trying to be around for a long time.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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A couple of flop plays, a death in the family, and it could all collapse.
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Many of us didn't believe in the image of bin Laden as a wandering Old Man of the Mountains, living on plants and insects in an inhospitable cave somewhere on the porous Pakistan-Afghan border.
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Being on Broadway and getting a Tony nomination - this has been an incredible ride, from rather humble beginnings.
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I'm going to continue to work to be the best player in the world, and whenever that doesn't sound fun to me anymore, that's when it's over.
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Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls forth faith rather than reason.
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And it just made me realize again because I have know it for some time, that you never get comfortable in this. No matter who you are. No matter who... how successful you are.
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As a little kid, I climbed a lot of trees because I always loved the bird's-eye view.
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You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you're suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another.
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Given an opportunity, Modi has violated the freedom of press both in letter and spirit. He destroys freedom of the press whenever he gets a chance.
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Yves Saint Laurent was the first person who made me feel like a woman.
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I find Indian music very funky. I mean it's very soulful, with their own kind of blues. But it's the only other school on the planet that develops improvisation to the high degree that you find in jazz music. So we have a lot of common ground.
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The smorgasbord of images now presented to us is getting bloodier. They're becoming more frequent - almost hourly.
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This result was confirmed by different researchers using various experimental arrangements.
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The problem is that religion tends to give people bad reasons to be good.
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Education is neither eastern nor western.
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In more static societies, like Ireland, you can tell where a person is from by their surname, or where their grandparents are from.
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When 'The Hummingbird's Daughter' came out, there was a certain backlash - 'Well, this isn't 'The Devil's Highway.'' That's just the way it goes.
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Angry people cannot create a peaceful planet.
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The best advice I've heard was from a lady in her 80s at my grandmother's 90th birthday. I was telling her how wonderful my children are. She said, "Don't forget your husband: you only borrow your children; your husband you'll have for ever."
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The British have always made terrible parents.
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I come from good stock. Both of my parents are big - my dad is a big guy; my mom is a big lady.
