Thomas Edward Yorke Quotes
We weren't listening to guitar bands, we were thoroughly ashamed of being a guitar band. So we bought loads of keyboards and learned how to use them, and when we got bored we went back to guitars.
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I like to practise. With every new piece, you make mistakes and you learn. So it's important to get on and have another go.
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M.G.M. never really gave me a break. They loaned me out for leading roles but cast me in programme pictures.
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I feel like, for me, different environments are very important to me creatively. I think it's my norm to be on the move.
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There are always reasons for people's behaviour, and it's easy just to dismiss them and assume that we already know their story, especially if they're no good at showing their emotions. Life gives you all these knocks, it's so easy to form a shell to protect yourself. I've done it myself.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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I gave up years ago on the concept that you could actually have balance in your life, I think it's a phantom chase.
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I've worked with homeless kids, kids in foster care, and I've never met a kid who couldn't be reached.
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Save yourself some grief. Check with the publicist you hire to see what other books he/she has coming out at the same time as yours.
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I try to be as ignorant about things as I can.
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Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they're doing and why they're doing it.
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Typecasting is something I have to be careful with, since I play myself on Geek & Sundry so much on my weekly show 'The Flog.' That's why I did 'Dragon Age: Redemption' last year, so I could do something a little more dramatic and hard-edged.
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I'm an actor first and foremost, who happens to do improv. I've also done sitcoms, I've done stage.
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It's important for people to understand where things come or what they represent.
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If I wanted to know what a certain future would feel like to me, I would find someone who is already living that future. If I wonder what it's like to become a lawyer or marry a busy executive or eat at a particular restaurant, my best bet is to find people who have actually done these things and see how happy they are.
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The best way to get to know the place you are traveling in is to walk around... and the best way to walk around is with comfortable shoes! Grab your travel buddy and your running shoes and go explore!
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We have the American people properly concerned about the future of our country and the world.
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My best decision was to choose to go to Wall Street over law. I learned a lot and focused on the expanding software industry at a time when the independent software industry was just beginning.
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I didn't have any friends, and I never went to the class parties.
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There's a kind of immediacy that comes with being constantly connected that I don't really relate to in my generation.
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One of the first things a British visitor to Southern California discovers is that he must have a car. Freeways. Bad public transport. I took driving lessons.
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The most common cause of low prices is pessimism - some times pervasive, some times specific to a company or industry. We want to do business in such an environment, not because we like pessimism but because we like the prices it produces. It's optimism that is the enemy of the rational buyer.
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I can quickly go to a place where I worry about society spiralling out of control.
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Getting this caliber of musicians together [for "90 Millas" CD in September of 2007] is almost impossible to do again.
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We weren't listening to guitar bands, we were thoroughly ashamed of being a guitar band. So we bought loads of keyboards and learned how to use them, and when we got bored we went back to guitars.
