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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The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
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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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There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.
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So black people all across this country are uniting. They must unite, and they must organize themselves.
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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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I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, 'Where? What?' and turn away.
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Eternal life is not a gift from God; eternal life is the gift of God. The energy and the power which was so very evident in Jesus will be exhibited in us by an act of the absolute sovereign grace of God, once we have made that complete and effective decision about sin. We have to keep letting go, and slowly, but surely, the great full life of God will invade us, penetrating every part.
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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.
