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'm addicted to 'Scandal.' Joe Morton is the devil, and I love him. I am addicted to 'Boardwalk Empire.' Jeffrey Wright is the devil, and I love him.
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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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We are not post-racial. And in many ways we don't even know how to have a conversation about being post-racial. Until we get out of that old-school way of thinking about race and opportunity and the ability to transcend some of the past of this country, then we're going to be stuck in the 20th-century conversation about race.
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The West wanted to avoid an Islamic state in Europe.
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One of my few shortcomings is that I can't predict the future.
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I have candy around my bed. I just kinda like reach over and eat it and then go back to sleep, no problem.
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Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.
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My nickname in grade school was salamander because I have a lazy eye
