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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I tend to think of stories and books as being for everyone, just with an 'entry reading age' rather than an age range.
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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 think society, in general, is hard on women, period.
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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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The thing is, even though you think a lot about your movie, and there's a lot of preparation behind it, the final end result completely goes beyond it. It's not something you're aware of.
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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 had no idea what modeling entailed and what an agency was. It was crazy. As I continued to do it, it was fun for me to learn everything from A to Z.
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I felt like my favorite writers have almost musical hooks in their work, whether it's poetry or a hook at the end of a chapter that makes you want to read the next one. And I think that my favorite writers definitely have something musical about what they do, in saying something so relatable and universal and so simple.
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I love the sound of Elmore James, the sound early guitarists like him got just by using minimal means.
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The most intelligent inspection of any number of fine paintings will not make the observer a painter, nor will listening to a number of operas make the hearer a musician, but good judges of music and painting may so be formed. Chess differs from these. The intelligent perusal of fine games cannot fail to make the reader a better player and a better judge of the play of others.
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One must learn to love oneself with a wholesome and healthy love, so that one can bear to be with oneself and need not roam.
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I don't want to over think anything because the second I do, I start to fail.
