Joe Thomas Quotes
You don't need to over-dramatise life, you can just reflect it. It's more interesting, in a way, if it appears to ring true.
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
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Ending Iran's nuclear threat and bringing it into the international community of law-abiding nations is one of the most pressing U.S. foreign policy objectives.
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My views naturally have mellowed. Most of the critics have been more or less nice to me.
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Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.
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There's definitely a whole different vibe on the set when there's like basically royalty working with us. We could have whatever we wanted. I felt like Britney Spears.
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The deeper the blue becomes, the more strongly it calls man towards the infinite, awakening in him a desire for the pure and, finally, for the supernatural... The brighter it becomes, the more it loses its sound, until it turns into silent stillness and becomes white.
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If a man is terrified, it's up to me to dispel that terror.
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Having grown up on a family farm, I am all too familiar with the effects a drought can have on a crop.
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Fear obscures reason, intensifies emotions, and makes it easier for demagogic politicians to mobilize the public on behalf of the policies they want to pursue.
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I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
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South African literature is a literature in bondage. It is a less-than-fully-human literature. It is exactly the kind of literature you would expect people to write from prison.
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As a writer, I've always felt it's my job to be extremely careful when writing about victims, especially women.
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We almost need a revolution in the culture of our thinking about football.
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Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.
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I've learned how to stay humble. I don't want to get in over my head because when you do that it takes you off your game.
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'Entourage' was a show that existed around wish-fulfillment. People watched it because they wanted to believe they could go on private jets and be hanging out in Hollywood, but as a show, comedically, it was not funny. Not a funny show. It's funny, ironically, because of how terrible it is.
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We're becoming so much better at destigmatizing all sorts of things, including mental illness in 'Silver Linings.'
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I didn't want to be a rock and roller. I wanted to be a Bobby Darin because he was the epitome of the performer, the sophisticated.
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The individual whose vision encompasses the whole world often feels nowhere so hedged in and out of touch with his surroundings as in his native land.
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I like to take chances. The actors I admire are the ones who aren't afraid to make themselves nasty, bad or even goofy. I've never shied away from controversial characters.
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Do you—do you think I want to—do you think I give a—I DON'T CARE WHAT YOU HAVE TO SAY!" Harry roared. "You will," said Dumbledore sadly. "Because you are not nearly as mad at me as you ought to be. If you are to attack me, as I know you are close to doing, I would like to have thoroughly earned it.
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My role now is as an artist and as a mogul to inspire and give others opportunities.
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You don't need to over-dramatise life, you can just reflect it. It's more interesting, in a way, if it appears to ring true.
