Kate Thompson Quotes
I wasn't that bothered with school; I was too mad into horses. But I liked reading and was good enough at English and always liked music.
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Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.
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I was convinced in middle school that I invented tight-rolling your pants, because I would get hand-me-downs from my brothers, and of course they were bell-bottoms from the '70s. So I would fold and fold over the bells. I like to think I started the trend. But I didn't.
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I was in high school when Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru unfurled India's flag in New Delhi.
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Surreal can be exciting and good, and it can be like living inside an alien landscape, and it can be completely interesting, or you can be alienated from your own life - inside your own life, it doesn't feel familiar any more.
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I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.
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Journalists always explain that people are mad at them because they tell the truth, which is often unpleasant or uncomfortable to hear. However, they fail in situations where there is more than one truth.
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One of my main weaknesses is a good movie. I'll just bawl my eyes out.
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I consider the world, this Earth, to be like a school, and our life the classrooms.
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Don't see the point in reading ghost-written autobiographies, even though some of these published lives may fascinate me. The 'ghost' is always present, manipulating an interview into first-person singular text, and it feels like I'm reading a lie.
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The perfect day for me is waking up and having a cup of tea with my kids before I drive them to school; Then, I go into the studio and try and write some music for three or four hours and give up about noon.
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There are something like 300 anti-genocide chapters on college campuses around the country. It's bigger than the anti-apartheid movement. There are something like 500 high school chapters devoted to stopping the genocide in Darfur. Evangelicals have joined it. Jewish groups have joined it.
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Surround yourself with really good people. I think that's an important thing. Because the people you surround yourself are a reflection of you.
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I think you can really tell a good actor if you can put a camera on them and they can just talk and emote and react and you don't have to keep cutting away from them, because they are the language and the behavior. It's all a tour-de-force performance.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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Even in my darkest times I knew I had a good future ahead of me.
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If you write any kind of fiction about America, you immediately have to start doing some research about guns, so in some ways, 'Gun Machine' is just the culmination of 20 years of reading about guns.
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I think music docs could turn off some people.
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The wonderful thing about drama school is that it stretches you in a way the industry doesn't.
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Let's not build the policy around the abuse. That's not good policy. That's actually bad policy. Build the policy around the aspiration point. That's what we need to do when we're seeing abuse online.
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We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
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I smoked some pot as a kid, but I just never did drugs.
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My stories are fundamentally about the love of family.
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I'll get out and do Pilates. I'll get in the ring and do some rounds of kickboxing and grappling and MMA conditioning. There's a lot of unique stuff that I do, too, that a lot of people wouldn't imagine or think about doing, like box jumps. You get a 42-inch box and dumbbells and practice working on your explosion jumping up on those boxes.
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I wasn't that bothered with school; I was too mad into horses. But I liked reading and was good enough at English and always liked music.
