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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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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I go into military communities and do fundraisers and that kind of thing with the band, because I know that the music can help do a lot of things. It can bring communities together, it can raise awareness... and it entertains.
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In my high-minded and naive way, I believed the only books worth reading were the classics.
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The salvation of the world depends on the men who will not take evil good-humouredly, and whose laughter destroys the fool instead of encouraging him.
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I feel like I've won the musical lottery.
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When I started off, I was working in a shed behind my house. All I had was a drill, an electric drill. That was the only machine I had.
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With the NDAA, his failure to close Guantanamo Bay and the ramping use of drones, President Obama looks suspiciously like President Bush, a man on a quest for American Empire.
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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.
