Tom Green (Michael Thomas Green) Quotes
We all borrow and steal and copy from each other, and that's the way I think people get inspired.
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Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.
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I wasn't completely comfortable in the footy culture because I wasn't that comfortable in my own skin, which I am now. I'd fit in better now, but I don't miss the training and the injuries you get playing footy.
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I dare anybody to look at me and say I'm anorexic. I'm so totally not.
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I like writers who seem to write because they have to. You get the feeling of this burning desire to tell a story. I find it in Peter Carey, Nicola Barker, Ali Smith and David Foster Wallace.
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I don't do meetings.
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I can tell you where I was when Kennedy was shot - which was in the common room at school. I heard about it on the old valve radio. At the time of Armstrong's landing, I was at university rehearsing a play.
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My calling, as one imperfect human, is to celebrate and uphold life every time I get the chance.
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If you want to live a long life, focus on making contributions.
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Criticism always seemed to me a lot like police work. You look for clues, fingerprints, motives. You need to construct an airtight case.
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But we cannot rely on foreign help indefinitely.
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Everybody has a job to do, and you just know that every day you have to do what it takes to get there. Of course, everybody has those days where you don't feel like doing it. I'm just like anybody else in that respect. But there's a difference between not feeling like doing it and not doing it period.
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If you like your brother and he's prospering, you'll be pleased for him.
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I have done the company lifestyle for 16 years, and ballet has changed.
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'The Handmaid's Tale' is a human story, and women's rights are human rights, and it's all about equality, but at the end of the day, it's not equal.
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Democracy has to be judged not just by the institutions that formally exist but by the extent to which different voices from diverse sections of the people can actually be heard.
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To speak well of a base man is much the same as speaking ill of a good man.
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I've deliberately studied many things that I know, going in, I won't be able to assimilate. I read Plato, St. Thomas, the mystics, to exercise my mind.
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It's unfortunate that cyberbullying is something that happens to 13-year-old kids in junior high and adults in the workplace. It's something that we have to deal with as Americans.
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I travel like a maniac. I travel more than anyone I know. I love learning the languages.
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Comedy is a live art, and the only way to record a comedy rock album is to do it live. The audience and their laughter is just as much a part of the album sound as our music. No retakes, no room for error.
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I did once shatter a chandelier. I was singing with my college choir in Wales. I was the soloist and I hit the high note and there was this massive bang and all this glass came down from the ceiling. I'd like that to be my party trick if I can perfect it.
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I think it's important that 'Star Wars' characters speak universally, to kids and to people.
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I've written a lot about southern California, but I don't use the same characters. Leave the people in the songs in the songs, is my philosophy.
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We all borrow and steal and copy from each other, and that's the way I think people get inspired.
