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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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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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 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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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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People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas.
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Accord, n. Harmony.
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The greatest improvement in the productive powers of labour, and the greatest part of skill, dexterity, and judgment with which it is any where directed, or applied, seem to have been the effects of the division of labour.
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The excitement that you were feeling about a special, unique path for yourself as a woman is all part of your identification with and attachment to being female. And that's ultimately all ego.
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'The Wire's definitely one of them. 'The Sopranos' is one of my all-time favorites. Those are two big ones for me.
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Let us disperse from our aloofness and serve the weak who made us strong, and cleanse the country in which we live. Let us teach this miserable nation to smile and rejoice with heaven's bounty and glory of life and freedom.
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I felt that writing about peoples' lives was a heck of a responsibility, and I wanted to know them in a deep way.
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Mother's Day, like motherhood itself, is fraught with peril. There are so many ways to get it wrong, so many opportunities to disappoint and be disappointed.
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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.
