Tom Green (Michael Thomas Green) Quotes
I always try to approach things from the point of authenticity. I've done that for my short films, working with non-actors from the real environments where you go exploring and placing them into the cast alongside professional actors.
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The options are war versus peace, and I am delighted that, so far, it appears that peaceful negotiation has won the day.
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In my personal life, I would just feel like, I will always be cool with everyone.
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You don't have to find out what someone's mechanical abilities are. All those factors are already a known commodity. I've seen teams win championships and have their entire team quit the next day because they weren't happy.
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The easiest thing to do in the world is pull the covers up over your head and go back to sleep.
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Everything I do is blown out of proportion. It really hurts my feelings.
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My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
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My mom would always play me a lot of late-'50s, late-'60s rock.
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If you hit a Talib with your shoe, then there would be no difference between you and the Talib. You must not treat others with cruelty and that much harshly, you must fight others but through peace and through dialogue and through education.
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The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary.
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Anyone who is afraid to lose isn't ready to win.
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In the end, I was doing night shoots on 'Gilmore Girls' and then wrapping and going straight from 'Gilmore Girls' to 'Roadies.'
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All war propaganda consists, in the last resort, in substituting diabolical abstractions for human beings. Similarly, those who defend war have invented a pleasant sounding vocabulary of abstractions in which to describe the process of mass murder.
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It's like 60 Minutes on acid.
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'I know it's easy to imagine but its easier to just 'do'If you can't 'do' what you imaginethen what is imagination to you?'
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Fox was interested in a different title to 'Independence Day.'
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In Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and maids.
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A bunch of chairs lined up in front of a podium equals school.
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I want every child in America to eat a nutritious, delicious, sustainably sourced school lunch for free.
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When I think of the 1980s, the only color that comes to mind is a brown, yellowish color. I guess it's coming from my life experience, and it's melancholia and sadness and a bit of joy.
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Britain is a textbook case of how growing inequality leads to economic crisis. The years before the crash were marked by a sharp rise in remortgaging and the growth of 0 percent balance transfer credit cards. By 2008 the UK had the highest ratio of household debt to GDP of any major economy.
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First and foremost, I married for love.
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However much you study, you cannot know without action. A donkey laden with books is neither an intellectual nor a wise man. Empty of essence, what learning has he whether upon him is firewood or book?
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I always try to approach things from the point of authenticity. I've done that for my short films, working with non-actors from the real environments where you go exploring and placing them into the cast alongside professional actors.
