Thomas Edward Yorke Quotes
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The food being presented at the most expensive restaurants, by the most sophisticated chefs, was not always recognizable as food to the diner - it required a leap of faith, and I felt curious about that phenomenon.
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The best part of touring, still, is touching people's hearts and igniting my band and igniting the people into what you call a spiritual revelation is sound and emotion.
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When I was starting out, young actresses had the studio system to protect them. Now you have a host of sharks, from your agent to your publicist to your lawyer.
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It gives me great pleasure, a good name. I always in writing start with a name. Give me a name and it produces a story, not the other way about normally.
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Get the facts. Recognize the equities of all concerned. Realize the necessity of doing a better job every day. Keep an open mind and work hard. The last is most important at all. There is no short cut.
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Slang is the speech of him who robs the literary garbage carts on their way to the dumps.
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All of a sudden, I was in charge of my own decisions in the studio, and I didn't have someone to guide me on what I was doing, right or wrong... I wasn't a producer, and I didn't realize until then how important producers were and how much they assisted me in my work. I tried to do what I could, but I had no idea what would be good for the market.
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A movie shoots six months for two hours of film.
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When you are developing a character you have to bring so much of yourself to the role.
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One of the things I'm most proud of about my country is the fact that we did lick McCarthyism back in the fifties.
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I hate to play a tournament in which I'm not contending. It's just not any fun for me.
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I was never the person who came up with a boom somehow. I worked slowly and consistently, making my way up the rankings, so there wasn't one special moment.
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Who are a little wise, the best fools be.
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Art is about trying to find the good in people, and making the world a more compassionate place.
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History is either a moral argument with lessons for the here-and-now, or it is merely an accumulation of pointless facts.
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I can be vilified. I can be misunderstood. I didn't come here to be liked. I came here to make a difference.
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The dogs absolutely do bark and play with each other, even though [Marino] says she trains them not to be noisy. But they're animals; that's what they do.
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The lucid dream, located as it is at a crossroads between worlds and states of consciousness, places the magician in a unique position to influence the delicate balance of consciousness and the interplay it has on matter in the waking state, and is thus an opportunity to test one's ability in the art of adjusting the mutable fabric of Maya.
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When I was child, I never spoke. Teacher used to write remarks on my note book. My mom sent me to a trainer. I started talking, and it gave me confidence.
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But I've never despised myself so much as I did that day - she was so small and - so fierce, so beautiful, it was like breaking a hawk's wings, stopping up a clear spring with bricks - digging up roses to make space to park your tank. Pointless and ugly.
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People who don't have much get ugly about giving up the little they have left.
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The thing I’m most afraid of is me. Of not knowing what I’m going to do. Of not knowing what I’m doing right now.
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The pointless snide remarks of hammerheaded sharks
