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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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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As a writer, a blank page will humble the hell out of you. It always does, and it always will.
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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 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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Every few seconds it changes - up an eighth, down an eighth - it's like playing a slot machine. I lose $20 million, I gain $20 million.
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At the age of 6, a teacher full of ambitions, who taught in the small public school of Biran, convinced my family that I should travel to Santiago de Cuba to accompany my older sister who would enter a highly prestigious convent school. Including me was a skill of that very teacher from the little school in Biran.
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In the morning, I always use a cube of ice on my face – it gives me a natural lift.
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I want a big house with a moat and dragons and a fort to keep people out.
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Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.
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If I don't explain or tell some of my experiences, I feel like I'm doing guys a disservice because I know as a younger player, there's things I could benefit from the experience of an older guy.
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When you're doing a Broadway show, you have no free time.
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Many talk about a guest worker program. I think most reasonable people believe that a guest worker program in the farming industry, perhaps in the gardening and landscape industries, is reasonable.
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
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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.
