Nicholas Thorburn Quotes
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I have ideas that I think might be amusing, and I try them, and if they look right, I carry them out, and if they don't, I throw them out and try something else. I don't agonize about it.
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There's an interesting contrast between born Catholics and converts. Converts are often much more rule-directed. Catholicism isn't something that they breathed in from their childhood, so they think that if you don't toe the line on abstract doctrine you can't be part of the Church.
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It's a fact that kids watch TV. But if you think back, when you watched cowboy movies, you would go out and play cowboys. TV and movies motivate people.
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The moment you sense someone is making something because they think people are gonna buy it or like it, it's just so phony! The public has a nose for phony like nobody else.
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The reason I hate publicists is because I think if we got rid of them everything would be on equal footing.
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Artists are political in the sense that they've subtracted themselves from the structure of the marketplace and are contributing something that's not utilitarian. Even though books get sold, and I get advances, I get to look at society and think for a living.
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I think Detroit is where muscle meets brains.
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I think that there are a lot of elements and events that will make you scared in life and make you not want to sort of show your true self.
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I think I would like to write screenplays, books, really anything.
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I don't think you really have chemistry in the way that you want between two actors unless frustration is there as well.
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I hate jet lag, but I love, love, love, love traveling - to meet new people, to try different foods because I'm a big foodie. I love food, even though people think models don't eat. We do eat.
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I think with anything where you delve into the back story of an artist, it kind of explains their work more intimately.
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I think it's fair to say I'm attracted to playing characters who are rather intense.
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Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
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I don't think of it as a competition - which might surprise you, given the way movies are reported constantly.
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I think that 'Mary Poppins' needs a subtle reader, in many respects, to grasp all its implications, and I understand that these cannot be translated in terms of the film.
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I think people are attracted to teaching because they want to make a real impact.
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I can't stand my legs, for a start, and you rarely see me in skirts.
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Do I think every culture will embrace location technology? Yes.
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When I was a kid, the miracles of my life were the Resurrection, a candlelight service on New Year's Eve, the Virgin Birth, and the Three Wise Men.
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The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.
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Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.
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Sometimes you want to go for a walk and you don't want to be watched. You just want to be anonymous and blend in. Especially when I travel, I feel that way, because I can't really go out and see a city the way other people can and I miss out on a lot.
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I don't want to over think anything because the second I do, I start to fail.
