Richard Thomas Quotes
I loved being in the room with Mamet as a director - he is the most generous, funny, delightful person to work for every day.
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I love my work but do not know how I write it.
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I don't miss acting at all.
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One of the things jazz has always excelled at is translating the reality of the times through its musical prism.
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Whatever they did for democracy, the U.S. interventions in the Middle East and the vaunted Arab Spring have proved to be pure hell for Arab Christians.
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Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out.
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I'm not a one-issue person.
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I didn't know what it was not to work hard as I grew up.
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I believe that misconceptions about oneself that one does not correct where possible act as a bad magic.
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If you take a frozen box and stick it in the microwave, you become connected to the factory. We've forgotten who we are.
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Other people notice the same things but they don't think to put it to music.
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It's the first time that I've ever had an art show based on a film, but it's a photography collage.
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I am very interested in place, and the influences of place on characters.
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To teach a child an instrument without first giving him preparatory training and without developing singing, reading and dictating to the highest level along with the playing is to build upon sand.
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When first starting to work with someone you try to get them in the same mindset that you were in when you were successful, and I realized the best thing you can ever do is realize that they are not you. They have a different persona and mindset, and you have to figure out what works best within your communication with that athlete.
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I love the idea of anthropomorphizing machines. I love the idea of taking technology and giving it a personality.
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Before we move forward with new efforts to lower the barriers to international free trade, we must review the consequences of the policies of the past and address the problems of the present.
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Every restaurant needs to have a point of view.
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I actually think that secrets are just a part of human nature and that everybody should have some.
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Ah," said the jailer, "do not always brood over what is impossible, or you will be mad in a fortnight.
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It is just as much a matter of chance that I am still alive as that I might have been hit. In a bomb-proof dug-out I may be smashed to atoms and in the open may survive ten hour's bombardment unscratched. No soldier outlives a thousand chances. But every soldier believes in Chance and trusts his luck.
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The people running Silicon Valley are not making the show because they want to do a satire of Silicon Valley. They are just comedy writers, and they want to make a funny show.
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Study the Constitution. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislatures, and enforced in courts of justice.
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I loved being in the room with Mamet as a director - he is the most generous, funny, delightful person to work for every day.
