Richard Thompson Quotes
Well, first of all it's entertainment. That stops us becoming too pretentious or thinking we're great artists.
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It's funny, I remember doing the Johnny Carson show, and, uh, I couldn't afford my rent.
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I hope Obama gets scary in the next four years, 'cuz he ain't gotta worry about getting re-elected.
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We do 32 episodes a season and will have shot 267 episodes by the end of the ninth season... It's impossible to sell that many episodes in the foreign market.
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It doesn't matter to me if I'm in love with my performance, so I watch all of my performances to understand and learn from them and figure out what's working and what's not. And I see the movies that I'm in in the theater a lot.
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A biblical false prophet was a servant of the devil attempting to lead people away from the truth.
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As long as we decline to allow sick, uninsured people to just lie down and die on the side of the road, everybody has to have insurance for the health care system to work sanely.
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That was FedEx Field the way I sure remember it, ... We needed everything we could get today to win this game.'
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There are always tons of names on a movie of people that didn't actually do anything on that film. I feel bad for the people that busted their ass because they get the same credit as someone who did nothing. It's kind of a weird thing.
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We are taking very drastic actions to reduce the risk of avian influenza to animals and birds.
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My favorite thing in the world was to make people sing - until I made people laugh. Then that became my favorite thing in the world.
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I think the most important thing in life is self-love, because if you don't have self-love, and respect for everything about your own body, your own soul, your own capsule, then how can you have an authentic relationship with anyone else?
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There is nothing so delightful as the hearing, or the speaking of truth. For this reason, there is no conversation so agreeable as that of the man of integrity, who hears without any intention to betray, and speaks without any intention to deceive.
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You can't teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
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People in Italy seem to be very capable of singing along with 'Wish You Were Here' perfectly, yet it's hard to get someone in the street who speaks english.
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Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that's pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock.
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All great art and literature is propaganda.
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When I started my first film, there were three women directors in France. Their films were OK, but I was different. It's like when you start to jump and you put the pole very high - you have to jump very high. I thought, I have to use cinema as a language.
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Not that the writers weren't good. I believe in those books and those writers very much. It's just that in the climate it's really hard to keep the lights on and the doors open when you're selling poetry and literature that appeals to a fringe audience.
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I am a predatory striker, ... That is why people say they would have liked to see us playing together. He does what he does outside the box and I would be inside waiting to get bits and that would have been good to see.
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The ring at the end of my nose makes me look rather pretty.
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I attribute that to the generosity of people that are in the entertainment business because they are all struggling. All roads seem to come to acting, for certain kinds of people that have a reason for being there. They want to be seen and heard, but there's more to it than that. There's a kindred spirit of struggling to find out, "What is this thing? What are we?" It's those eternal questions. But, in the meanwhile, I've met some wonderful people doing this.
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Well, first of all it's entertainment. That stops us becoming too pretentious or thinking we're great artists.
