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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A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.
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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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My decision to leave 'Ween', however interpreted, was absolutely not made in haste.
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Many a play is like a painted backdrop, something to be looked at from the front. An Ibsen play is like a black forest, somethingyou can enter, something you can walk about in. There you can lose yourself: you can lose yourself. And once inside, you find such wonderful glades, such beautiful, sunlit places.
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I don't aim for perfection. But I do want to try and come up with something interesting.
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In my martial arts days. I was taught a lot of discipline that probably rolls over into other parts of my life. You're not supposed to attack back until you're attacked. You never take your skills and abuse them. I knew I could be lethal to someone my size.
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I like the idea of playing in unison with yourself.
