Richard Thompson Quotes
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I try to make myself happy, no, because I know that if I'm not happy, my colleagues are not happy and my shareholders are not happy and my customers are not happy.
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I condemn everyone and anyone who commits acts of terrorism. And Hamas has committed acts of terrorism.
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I tend to play characters that I can infuse with certain kinds of humour. Even the baddest guy can be funny in his own particular way. I want the audience to engage with the character on some deeper level so that they leave the cinema still thinking about him.
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Excellence is a process that should occupy all our days.
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I'm just so glad that I started acting when I did because I had this wealth of life experience. I don't know if I'd have been able to handle it had I gone out to L.A. at 22.
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I'm not really into alternative country - I'm into Patsy Cline, who lived down the street from where I lived, and old Dolly Parton records, Kitty Wells and that old stuff. I like country music. I also like Eric Church, who has a great new sound but also holds onto that old sound.
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Nobody shoots at Santa Claus.
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The homosexual community has more acceptance in America than it ever has, and the suicide rate is as high as it's always been.
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I'm very conscious of... I don't feel like a star.
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The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
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Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.
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I love to go to casinos with my wife. I play poker, and she's an old-fashioned slot queen. She even has a visor.
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Ireland and America, music-wise, are very closely related. The Irish came over with their fiddles in hand, and you can hear it in the bluegrass and rockabilly. I love it when music from different countries combine.
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I have had four happy days in my life, and three of them turned out to be illusions.
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The familiar trope of the woman in peril doesn't really interest me.
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Once you begin being naughty, it is easier to go and on and on, and sooner or later something dreadful happens.
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Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
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Lunch is for wimps.
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One of the first pieces of advice I was ever given, on my first job was, 'You should always buy something to treat yourself to say, 'Well done for getting the job!'
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In order to maintain that fire for acting and capture its essence, you can't let yourself be concerned with what people have to say about you. You just can't.
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As kids, we have all handled shot guns. From there on, there is no transition. It stays in the toy box. The idea is to get the transition and bridge the gap between the toy box and the shooting range.
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People need to be made conscious of a very simple reality: we have no choice but to share this planet, this small blue sphere floating in the vast reaches of space, with all of our fellow 'passengers.'
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Europe - with hundreds of millions of people - can accept hundreds of thousands of migrants.
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I like the idea of playing in unison with yourself.
