J. Anderson Thomson Quotes
Genuine morality is doing what is right regardless of what we may be told; religious morality is doing what we are told.
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I like buying clothes, especially as I get a tax-deductible allowance.
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I want to sound like an instrument. I want my voice and my words to marry the beat. I go with the rhythm of it and the words start to come to my mind and those words could be based on things that's been on my mind for the past year, the past month, the past week, whatever; I write it.
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If there's anything worse than being 16, it's having parents visibly reliving their own teenage years in your anguished presence.
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It was in 1969, and I thought, wow, you know, I really didn't want to do a TV series. You know, I had my own act, and I was performing in Vegas and doing all of these exciting things.
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When you begin to write poems because you love language, because you love poetry. Something happens that makes you write poems. And the writing of poems is incredibly pleasurable and addictive.
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'Pulp Fiction' was probably one of the first films I ever saw that really kind of took effect on me. I was about four years old – obviously wasn't supposed to be seeing that film; my sister kind of sneaked it out and we got to see it. She's older than me. That was something I always used to watch.
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Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.
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I've always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine, so I was kind of looking for these parts. But we have a tendency in Denmark not to do many action films.
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There is nothing I'm any more passionate than empowering the next generation.
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I've done comedy, and I've done drama. I've sort of been a journeyman in my career so far.
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As a writer, a blank page will humble the hell out of you. It always does, and it always will.
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When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others.
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Whenever I read a script, I start recasting the role that I might play. I'm like, 'God, this should be played by Domhnall Gleeson, not me.'
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I love Lady Gaga and I love Katy Perry and R&B and rap music... I love big, American pop music.
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I am trying to concentrate on books. You know, I love Dostoevsky; he's my favourite writer.
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I drink tons of water. When you're puffy, you think you can't drink water since you feel more bloated and gross but that's what you do to get the toxins out of your system. I put a little lemon in the water bottle that I carry around with me or drink a cup of hot water with lemon. It's a natural diuretic.
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I absolutely adore Thanksgiving. It's the only holiday I insist on making myself.
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Some people are tied to five hundred words a day, six days a week. I'm a hesitater.
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Katie Couric is one of my favorite people.
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The stuff I write I'm very proud of, but I'm smart enough to know I'll never get on the cover of 'Rolling Stone' next to Elvis Costello.
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If we want our civilization to survive, we have to watch for the extremes. We have to reclaim our morality, both individually and as the society. To protect ourselves from extremisms, we have to maintain moderation.
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I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.
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All my early school reports from the age of 5 were 'Daniel must learn not to distract others.'
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Genuine morality is doing what is right regardless of what we may be told; religious morality is doing what we are told.
