Scott Thompson Quotes
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Football shape is one thing, and then 'futbol' shape is a completely other thing. It's a whole other level of fitness that you have to work to maintain.
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My father was a civil servant in northern India where I was born. As a boy I saw the dire effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially on women and children. It often seemed that the only thing separating me from them was luck.
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I've always found that no matter how much you spend on a movie - you can spend sixty dollars or sixty million dollars - if the movie's good, it's good.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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All working parents should have paid family leave. That's one of many reasons I'm working to elect Hillary Clinton. She has a plan to guarantee workers - men and women - up to 12 weeks of paid family leave to care for a new child or a seriously ill family member.
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There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.
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My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.
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I am so grateful that I accepted the offer to do 'CSI,' but it was like being shot out of a cannon, and it was so different from anything that I have ever done.
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It is one thing to say that there is a constitutional right to keep a gun at home for protection. It is quite another to say there is a constitutional right to bring a hidden gun into a daycare center.
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I will never give myself the luxury of thinking, 'I've made it.'
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Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.
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My voice and the styles and genres I sing all express my appreciation for what I hear.
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If you dunk your head in cold water, you can't stay under for more than five seconds. I mean, that's it.
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I would say I've always lived creativity, but now I - I do it with an intention that's got a completely different power.
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I love my early movies, but naturalism is an artist's early style. Now I want to deal with feelings, dreams, an acceptance of irrationality.
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It's interesting to play a real-life person who has already been a character on 'Saturday Night Live.'
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A leader's most important decisions are about people. Who do you put in which jobs? How long do you leave them in a job?
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My brother was going to go to England to wrestle, but then we found out they were opening a wrestling school in Bray, County Wicklow. I thought, 'I'll go along and try that.'
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...and each time I pressed the shutter release it was a shouted condemnation hurled with the hope that the picture might survive through the years, with the hope that they might echo through the minds of men in the future - causing them caution and remembrance and realization.
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Computer : a million morons working at the speed of light.
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If you want to play it safe, mix a lot of colors in the same tone and that is such an easy way to feel modern and feel a little confident.
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Oh, I love to read more than anything. I always love the 'New Stories From the South' anthologies - I think it's the best short fiction collection anywhere, just filled with treasures.
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Writing is hard work, but a lot of fun, too. It allows me to live out some of my fantasies.
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If comedy duos don't like each other, it just won't work.
