Mike Thompson Quotes
Diplomacy should always be the first option, and every mission should have a clear, achievable objective that is in the interests of the United States.
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If what the heart approves conforms to proper patterns, then even if one's desires are many, what harm would they be to good order?
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The day you settle for less is the day you will get less.
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That's what sets apart one actor from another, and that you can't teach. You can't give someone that. When you're working, putting a character together, or in a scene, that's where things will happen that you have to have the intuition to notice them, and to register them.
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I don't think about the press or the crowds or the other leaders of the race. The focus is only on myself. As soon as I see the targets, I tune them out.
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I don't mean to be presumptuous that men don't feel this, I don't mean this, but I found that when my child was born, my first child, it felt like my heart broke.
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Do you know what it's like to love and be alone?
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I think vampires are a timeless powerful archetype that can tap into people's psyches.
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I think I've developed into an actress because I've worked darn hard at it and I've learned a great deal from a lot of gifted people. And if I have nothing else to show for my life, apart from a scrapbook full of cuttings, I have the knowledge that my early days in Hollywood weren't in vain.
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How has The Grand Illusion held up over the years? It is not enough to say that it has retained its power. Not only has the stature of the film remained undiminished by the passage of time (except in a few minor details), but the innovation, the audacity, and, for want of a better word, the modernity of the direction have acquired an even greater impact.
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Almost everybody's here doing the same thing. Who am I to come up with an excuse when there's 64 other players here doing the same thing? 63 others, sorry.
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All of us have a dormant spark of divinity in us which has to be fanned into flame by yoga.
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Golf is like an 18-year-old girl with big boobs. You know it's wrong but you can't keep away from her.
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As crude a weapon as a cave man's club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life.
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The country has been patient, we have been patient, but now ordinary Americans are being seriously harmed by this dispute.
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You have to sing every day so you can build up to being, you know, Amazingly Brilliant.
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An acceptance of your cultural inheritance, and at the same time a dislike of it, is a building block of good art.
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With God, every moment is the moment of beginning again.
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I thought it was a huge conflict of interest to be the director and the subject - it's very sketchy territory to be in. I've seen what's happened to other directors who have done that.
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Reconciling with an adversary that can be as brutal as the Taliban sounds distasteful, even unimaginable. And diplomacy would be easy if we only had to talk to our friends. But that is not how one makes peace.
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Diplomacy should always be the first option, and every mission should have a clear, achievable objective that is in the interests of the United States.
