Thomas Edward Yorke Quotes
My nickname in grade school was salamander because I have a lazy eye
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I am enjoying my face changing, as well as realizing that at the same time, as you get older, the machine isn't as well-oiled as it was.
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There's nothing more interesting than the landscape of the human face.
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We always see abhorrent behavior and say why, but then we get mad when somebody tries to answer.
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Every so often when I'm writing, a character might actually be a distinct person in my head - often not an actor or a face, literally a person who just seems to exist in my imagination. Then the challenge is finding somebody who is close enough to that to make me feel like I've ended up where I wanted to be.
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Looking up and out, how can we not respect this ever-vigilant cognizance that distinguishes us: the capability to envision, to dream, and to invent? the ability to ponder ourselves? and be aware of our existence on the outer arm of a spiral galaxy in an immeasurable ocean of stars? Cognizance is our crest.
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We must stop the trend of closing schools and building prisons.
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A well-aimed spear is worth three.
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My kids always say to me, 'Can we watch TV?' I say, 'Absolutely!' because then I can get something done. But then they say, and I wait for it, 'But can you watch with us?' My moment of freedom vanishes. So not only do I not think TV's that great and I hate sitting in front of it, but I have to with them.
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But there will come a time and a place to give back, and each individual will recognize that time and place.
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The violence in the world comes about because we human beings are forever creating barriers between men who are like us and men who are not like us.
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I was raised in New York City and raised in the New York City theater world. My father was a theater director and an acting teacher, and it was not uncommon for me to have long discussions about the method and what the various different processes were to finding a character and exploring character and realizing that character.
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Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting.
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I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.
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When I was first exposed to the films of Ingmar Bergman, I found them frank and disturbing portraits of the world we live in, but that was not something that displeased me. They were beautiful. I thought people would respond to my plays the way I responded to Bergman's films.
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Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd are really amazing, lovely people and really great comedic actors.
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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I think I owe it to myself to put my best effort forward and prove how good I can be.
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I have a cousin who is a spiritual advisor for Native veterans in Canada, so I'm very familiar with the history of Natives in the military. And growing up as an American Indian myself, the story of Ira Hayes is one that is often told.
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I don't know anyone at the highest levels who approved Abu Ghraib. If President Barack Obama for a moment thought that somebody at a high level had approved it, he would go after them.
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I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school.
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I really wanted my music to reflect my personal life and what I set out to do every day.
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I sometimes read about authors who say they require a perfectly silent room maintained at precisely 68 degrees, with trash bags taped over the windows and a white-noise machine in the corner to write, and I think, 'Who are these people, and do any of them have kids?'
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Protect those who protect you.
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My nickname in grade school was salamander because I have a lazy eye
