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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I would say colonialism is a wonderful thing. It spread civilization to Africa. Before it they had no written language, no wheel as we know it, no schools, no hospitals, not even normal clothing.
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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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Building a baseball team is like building a house. You look for the best architects, the best builders - and then you let them do their jobs.
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After the prescribed length of time and number of meals consumed and digested in unison, they felt they had sufficient community of interests to marry.
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I like a lot of electronica. I like older jazz rather than newer.
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The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
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I think I was probably able to flip characters in my head as if I was playing different roles in order to write the different people because you kind of have to be one person, and inhabit him and write from his voice and be her and write her voice. So I think that helped.
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I like the idea of playing in unison with yourself.
