Torquil Campbell Quotes
We became a band that was kind of a big band, kind of a band that quite uncool people listen to, people a lot like me. I've realized that's a much more beautiful fate than the plan I had.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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I didn't make any friends in New York by insisting on moving the league headquarters to Cincinnati. The fact was that my son Bill was in school. His mother had passed away, and I didn't want to take the boy away from his school and to a strange city.
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I have been doing so much. Speaking engagements... producing... developing a half-hour sitcom... working on a movie... leading acting workshops all over the world... and hosting 'My Black Is Beautiful,' an empowerment TV show I'm doing on BET for women.
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The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity.
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Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control.
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I spend days with writers' block. It is a problem.
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I do not believe in abortion at will. I do not believe that if a woman just wants to have an abortion she should... I do believe if you have an abortion you are committing murder.
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Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.
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We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
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I'm more offended when someone's killed on television than when there's something that's sensuous or sexual. So what?
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You don't want to get stuck with a record that you've done with someone that you feel obligated to put out - that's not really dope, just because you made an effort to get together and work.
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I'm obsessed with those old romance films. I also would love to venture into the silent film world. I think that's extremely compelling and interesting and really relies on the acting, even more so than when you have an actor speaking.
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At the end of the day, an actor is only a cog in the wheel.
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I can tell you who I'd like to work with as far as rock legends. Definitely Dave Grohl from the Foo Fighters. Of course Linkin Park. Actually, I already worked with Travis Barker on a couple of things. Gotta let the drummer get some. Possibly Paramore, Hayley Williams.
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In England people are very proud of being very stupid.
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I don't respond to authority figures who abuse their authority.
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I'm learning the power of going away for the weekend and keeping myself company.
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The real force of Silicon Valley is the mentality, the spirit. There's no reason at all that can't be replicated in Paris.
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Acting is like driving; you can never forget it, and it's in my blood.
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Be gentle, kind and beautiful, yet firm and strong, both mentally and physically.
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In terms of Hurricane Sandy, I really do see some hopeful grassroots responses, particularly in the Rockaways, where people were very organized right from the beginning, where Occupy Sandy was very strong, where new networks emerged.
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I would love it if anyone gave me the job of adapting 'The Great Gatsby,' but nobody ever does.
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I remember being really shocked after Mellow Gold came out and going on tour, and all these kids were there. It totally disturbed me. Who are all these young people? I'd been playing Mississippi John Hurt covers in coffee shops to a bunch of thirty-, forty-, fifty-year olds. Then all of a sudden there were these teenagers.
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We became a band that was kind of a big band, kind of a band that quite uncool people listen to, people a lot like me. I've realized that's a much more beautiful fate than the plan I had.
