John W. Thompson Quotes
I grew up in West Palm Beach, Florida. My dad took me hunting, trapping and fishing when I was a kid.
John W. Thompson
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I have a complicated relationship with the horror genre. I love it; I loved it as a kid growing up, and I watched Chiller Theater in New York. So I loved it, but then you do feel if you do it too much, you're stuck there.
Zach Galligan
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We need more children raised in the optimum situation, which is between a mom and a dad bonded together for life.
Sam Brownback
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There are many things which swallow up men's thoughts while they live, which they will think little of when they are dying. Hundreds are wholly absorbed in political schemes and seem to care for nothing but the advancement of their own party. Myriads are buried in business and money matters and seem to neglect everything else but this world.
J. C. Ryle
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Growing up, there were no families on TV that looked like mine.
Laura Harrier
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To tell you the truth, I hadn't seen any Pixar until I went to see 'Wall-E,' and I watched it and I was shocked to see how adult it was, with the setting in our lives, both present and future, and how they dealt with it... And then quite relieved to find that the one I was working on, 'Up,' how adult it was.
Ed Asner
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If you don't stick up for what's yours, and defend what's yours... what are you?
Randy Quaid
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I feel that I've got the opportunity to set a great role model for girls to look up to a strong, active, compassionate, loving, positive woman, and I think it's so important.
Gal Gadot
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Personally, I'm not into reality shows - I can't even name a reality show that I was a really big fan of, altogether as a whole, not just from MTV. Like, if ABC has another reality show, I'm like, 'Oh God, another reality show.' But people love them. 'The Hills', 'Laguna Beach'... those do extremely well. It's just a personal preference.
Damien Fahey
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In stand-up it really helps to play yourself and talk about your own feelings. You cannot fail to be original if you're just talking about what you think about X, Y and Z. Unless you've got a twin brother who's also a stand-up.
Eddie Izzard
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My unusual beauty tip is that I often use Vaseline to take my make up off. It works great and is good for sensitive skin.
Rachel Bilson
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There are always new places to go fishing. For any fisherman, there's always a new place, always a new horizon.
Jack Nicklaus
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When we live the 21st-century good life, almost every aspect of it is predicated on not looking at the implications of what we're up to. Happiness at this point has a lot to do with not looking, so you don't feel complicit in some vast and awful enterprise.
Paolo Bacigalupi
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If I'm feeling desperate, I'll go out image-hunting. I'll go to news agents and stand at the rack flicking through magazines or go to second-hand bookshops. And then, bit by bit, like concrete poetry, I start to realise that I am drawn to particular things, and then I start wondering why that is.
Gary Hume
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I've written extensively on Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth and seen up close how those women, who were born when the country hoped for a male heir, made their way as leaders.
Kate Williams
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I grew up kind of a tomboy and I used to fight with all the neighborhood boys.
Edie Falco
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In spite of what some people claim, we are not in a post-racial era. I think it's still an important issue to bring up.
Malcolm-Jamal Warner
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My biggest luck was the Terry McMillan era, because what happened after the phenomenon of 'Waiting to Exhale' is that publishing woke up. They said, 'Wow. Black people do read.'
Tananarive Due
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It may take a village to raise a child, but not every villager needs to be a mom or dad. Some of us just need to be who we are.
Meghan Daum
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She suddenly began to jump up and down, screaming at the top of her lungs. "The arks are after me! The arks are after me! Help me, the arks are after me!" .... "The arks! You don't understand, I have the ring and the arks are after me!" .... (and so the police officer is puzzled long enough for Miriam and Seth to escape)
Ted Dekker
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But the devil is a subtle worm; he does not give up at one defeat, for he knows human nature, and the strength of the forces which battle for him.
Upton Sinclair
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The country is yearning to put behind all these horrible things that have to do with corruption, state capture, behind us. The sooner these are all done, the better, because we want to move on; we want to move on to a better life.
Cyril Ramaphosa
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If I pleaded guilty to a mistake while I was home secretary, it wasn't that I didn't get tough - my God, I put immigration and security officials on French soil for the first time.
David Blunkett
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I grew up in West Palm Beach, Florida. My dad took me hunting, trapping and fishing when I was a kid.
John W. Thompson
