Tommy Lee (Thomas Lee Bass) Quotes
I just write... if it's really good, it's going on the record. If it's average, it's going in the trash.
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It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum.
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In today's society we sometimes forget to balance our hearts and our heads; this is the reason we stop laughing.
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I do sometimes wonder if people think, 'Oh we'll have her because she cries well.' The odd thing is I don't really know where it comes from. If the script is good, I find I can usually cry without too much trouble - in fact, the hard thing is trying to get me to stop. But I'm not really a crier in real life. I'm not a dramatic person, you see.
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At the school I attended, the clergyman who ran the cathedral school in Shanghai would give lines to the boys as a punishment. They expected you to copy out, say, 20 or 30 pages from one of the school texts. But I found that rather than laboriously copying out something from a novel by Charles Dickens, it was easier if I made it up myself.
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It's kind of selfish to say that you're only going to fight for a victory that you will live to see.
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Kaepernick's protest has been very successful. I really appreciate the fact that he's been giving away money to organisations; he pledged to give away a million dollars, and he's been doing it.
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Small okra pods have a much more attractive texture than large ones, which, when cooked, can be gloopy, stringy and totally spoil a dish.
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Apartheid is inherently a practice of violence.
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Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.
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At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us out of ourselves in a thousand forms of action.
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I managed to survive the worst things any entertainer could possibly go through.
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I'd find it demeaning to be cleaning toilets.
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The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.
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At any given moment, it's not about where we are supposed to be. It's about what work, which relationship, what decision I take. Every moment counts. Every decision counts. And if we look at our decisions in life as such, we stop battling and start winning.
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Elves are like trees, grounded and focused from the trunk down but graceful and agile on top.
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If I made a musical in the beginning of my career, it would have been crane shots and tracking shots and people coming out of cakes and whatever, but these techniques are something that I've left behind me.
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I shoot, I score. He shoots, I score.
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Rahul Gandhi is very idealistic and a very decent human being. He has real concerns for the downtrodden.
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When you tour, you regain the music and the connection with the audience.
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I used to be with a publishing house called Roosevelt Music. A gentleman there told me he had seen Peggy Lee perform Fever in Las Vegas and I found out later she wanted to record it.
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Obviously I find women more interesting than men to write about.
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I write about what happens to me. It's all there. I couldn't do it any other way.
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Beekeeping is farming for intellectuals.
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I just write... if it's really good, it's going on the record. If it's average, it's going in the trash.
