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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The idea of modernity is beginning to lose its vitality. It is losing it because modernity is no longer a critical attitude but an accepted, codified convention.
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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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Too many of Disney animators, and a lot try to emulate Disney, are trying to hit what they call quality levels. They're boring mannerisms.
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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 never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.
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From the explicit prohibition against the destruction of fruit trees, our sages deduced that it is all the more forbidden to destroy the fruits themselves.
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The first show I worked on was 'In Living Color.' I think 'The Daily Show' was the culmination of having that point of view - being able to look at this third rail in our society.
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I'm not in this sport to say a guy can beat me.
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The essence is, what can we do next? And will it be good?
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We all borrow and steal and copy from each other, and that's the way I think people get inspired.
