Scott Thompson Quotes
Art is about the edges and the sharp corners and those places are not conducive to activism, which is about putting on a gloss.
Quotes to Explore
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I've never experienced chronic pain myself, but I have known many people over the years who have.
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Me and my dad are kind of distant since my mom and him separated.
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I was on Kanye's Yeezus tour as a dancer, but really, I was a Vanessa Beecroft model. I was one of the three 'dancers' who couldn't dance and was more of an accessory than an individual. Vanessa was pretty involved. Her style is about a lot of standing. It's very simple but haunting.
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Today's films are so technological that an actor becomes starved for roles that deal with human relationships.
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Be as polite to the custodian as you are to the chairman of the board.
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Be soft, even if you stand to get squashed.
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It was 1966 by the time I started taking pictures seriously and books, newspapers and magazines of the time were full of great pictures that helped to inspire me.
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I did not think I would be able to do myself justice if I had to speak to the players in English. I would not be able to get my emotions and feelings across.
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Our everyday lives are filled with complex decisions. We long for simplicity and ordinariness.
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I feel like my music has become a lot of things. It's hard to label the evolution, but I like there to be an evolution. I just like to paint with all different kinds of colors.
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But my mother and father were married when my mom was 20 and my dad was 24.
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I'm a voracious reader, and I love to throw myself into it.
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If the part isn't always there on the page, I've had good relationships with writers where there's an openness to bring more to the role.
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All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only.
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My physical transformations - like changing my hair - are usually a reflection of what's inspiring me at the moment.
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The 19th century became the age of the museum. Objects were scrambled for, specimens seized, and friezes and antiques grasped.
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Much early alchemy seems to have been adventure. You heated and mixed and burnt and pounded and to see what would happen. An adventure might suggest an hypothesis that can subsequently be tested, but adventure is prior to theory.
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Social phenomenology is the science of my own and of others' experience. It is concerned with the relation between my experience of you and your experience of me. That is, with inter-experience. It is concerned with your behaviour and my behaviour as I experience it, and your and my behaviour as you experience it.
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Christian ... he felt very much like an uninitiated chess-player who sees that the pieces are in a peculiar position on the board, and might open the way for him to give checkmate, if he only knew how.
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Around the world there are certain marital systems, certain physical systems, political systems, social systems, and all those things are kind of turned on their head but represented in various ways within "The Lobster."
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Both my parents are Scottish, and although I grew up in Canada after moving over, all of my family are proud to be Scots.
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The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed.
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Oh yeah, I mean every fighter has got be dedicated, learn how to sacrifice, know what the devotion is all about, make sure you're paying attention and studying your art.
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Art is about the edges and the sharp corners and those places are not conducive to activism, which is about putting on a gloss.
