Scott Thompson Quotes
When I found out I had cancer, I just said one thing: 'I want to hold on to life' and that changed everything for me.
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I saw Mercury Prize-winners Alt-J for the first time recently, touring their debut album 'An Awesome Wave,' and I'm still riding the high: they're the most musically dynamic and exciting band to have poured tune into my lug holes live since Bellowhead.
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Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
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Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.
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A culture produces ideas which are being explored, which of interest to that culture at that moment. And I think one of the things a writer can do is to take those ideas and go a bit further with them.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.
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I come from an alcoholic Irish background - I know where I was going! But I met my wife and started to practise Buddhism, which is a levelling experience for me, and there hasn't been a day I've missed in 40 years. I apply it to everything - to my work and relationships. I try to be a compassionate person.
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I never had the chance to consider what or how I wanted to be.
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We are all the same person trying to shake hands with our self.
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I was a James Brown junkie as a kid.
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I didn't appreciate how special and sometimes strange my CIA world was - until it suddenly and spectacularly ended in a newspaper column.
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I write about heartbreak because I like writing about sad things, but I'm writing happy songs, too!
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An injured lion still wants to roar.
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Tacked above my desk are photos of artists I admire - Hopper, Sargent, Twain - and postcards from beloved bookstores where I've spent all my time and money - Tattered Cover, Elliot Bay, Harvard Bookstore.
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Ever since I was 10 years old doing jiu-jitsu, I've done well against the tall guys.
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Silence, you know, is the best place to get close to spirit for me.
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Despite all these obstacles and bad security situation, I have the energy and the resolve to train, but my head is full of ideas and it distracts me, and I need to focus.
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I'm a big Sarah Michelle Gellar [Buffy the Vampire Slayer] fan. Huge. I love her. She's gorgeous. I see her Maybelline ads, and I'm like, 'How can she be that pretty?'
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Motivation is the power behind plot.
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Every social organisation which is rooted in life still lasts a long time, even after the conditions from which it drew its strength have changed in a manner unfavourable to it.
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I think that people get to a certain point in their life and they think that nothing can change.
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There's a feeling of elation that comes after getting off stage and then there's a feeling of utter sadness that comes after getting off the stage.
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When I found out I had cancer, I just said one thing: 'I want to hold on to life' and that changed everything for me.
