Richard Thompson Quotes
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An increase in light gives an increase in darkness.
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What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive.
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We're at maybe 1% of what is possible. Despite the faster change, we're still moving slow relative to the opportunities we have. I think a lot of that is because of the negativity... Every story I read is Google vs someone else. That's boring. We should be focusing on building the things that don't exist.
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American stuntmen are smart - they think about safety. When they do a jump in a car, they calculate everything: the speed, the distance... But in Hong Kong, we don't know how to count. Everything we do is a guess. If you've got the guts, you do it. All of my stuntmen have gotten hurt.
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I recently read an article on how I was dropped from a film because I couldn't dance! It was so ridiculous that I decided to shut up about it. Let people say what they want to. It's such a waste of time.
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I have been working since I was 11 on everything including period dramas.
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Inauguration Day is like two ships passing in the night: the new staff moving in while the other walks out, taking one final look at the White House lawn as they leave with their cardboard box of possessions.
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Ask your editor or ask your agent to find out what the house's goals are for your book before it comes out. Get some sense of expectations so you are prepared.
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To rebuild this country will take a long time but we have the mandate and the people support us.
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Anybody is influenced by where and how he lives.
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You can't show up at the bedside and then turn on your skills. You have to keep your game sharp all the time.
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It is a great piece of folly to attempt to make anything out of my early life.
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Real education is about genuine understanding and the ability to figure things out on your own; not about making sure every 7th grader has memorized all the facts some bureaucrats have put in the 7th grade curriculum.
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When there is time to think about cricket, I think but when there is time to be with family, I try to do justice to that aspect of my life as well.
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Let us not let the world be defined by the destruction wrought by one virus, but illuminated by billions of hearts and minds working in unity.
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Those days of every child having a mummy and daddy who lived at home - Daddy went to work, and Mummy stayed at home and took care of everyone - those days have almost gone, and it's so much more unconventional now.
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I always was getting into trouble some way, because I was really good at lying when I was a kid.
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You can't be like, 'Alright, I'm going to make this viral!' You just put stuff out there, and you hope that people engage and resonate with it.
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I'm super and very openly obsessed with voice-over. 'In a World...' was my love letter to the industry of voice-over. And in a way, I sometimes think of it as a 93-minute audition to the voice-over industry to say, 'Hey. Consider me!'
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I wanted to be a child actor so bad that every day I'd beg my parents if I could audition, but my mom said, 'Not until you can drive yourself to auditions.'
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The thing is you can get used to anything you think you cant you want to die but you dont you cant you just are.
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Going on means going far, going far means returning.
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The best thing you've got going for you is individuality.
