William Thorsell Quotes
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Of course I get angry, but I want to use my brain a little bit and not just smash things.
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Youth all over the world are very hungry to succeed.
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Just as good books give me the joys of being alive, bad novels depress me, and as I notice this sentiment coming from the pages, I stop. I also do not hesitate to walk out of a movie house if the film is bad.
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I've never been able to say I've been influenced by a list of artists I like because I like thousands and thousands and I've been influenced in some way by all of them.
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I think any actor in their right mind is afraid of getting pigeonholed.
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I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes.
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Friends give me a hard time about the pants I'm wearing, which are made in China. Well, how do you find the right clothes? Or the right movie studio? The right people giving you checks? Good luck doing the right thing all the time.
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I would love to do something like 'Beverly Hills Cop'. I'd get to be funny and cool and heroic all in the same breath.
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I have this group of friends that I'll send my scripts to before I send them to a large audience.
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I know of no country in the world that has passed a law specifically denying a woman's right to choose where she intends to give birth.
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I had given myself a sort of early retirement when I left the scene in 1985. All of the people in my family worked until they dropped, including my father. I decided to take a little time to enjoy life. I traveled, built my dream house, rescued a few dogs. My return to music, and acting, was deliberate, part of my musical arc.
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I had discovered journalism to be my life's ambition.
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O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams.
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Social revolutions and group revolutions are good, and we need that, but we also need personal revolution - revolution within ourselves that change who we are as people.
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We all have hearts.... If you have a heart, love somebody. If you have enough heart, love everybody.
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Mother-love is not inevitable. The good mother is a great artist ever creating beauty out of chaos.
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When people say stuff like, "Oh, that's soft rock. I don't listen to that," I find that elitist. It's music-racist.
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We are still struggling with people who don't feel comfortable going into museums. As a visual artist I ask how artists can be part of enacting a change.
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I'm into all that sappy stuff - a surprise picnic, nice dinner, or traveling. I'm kind of an old romantic.
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To be perfectly original one should think much and read little, and this is impossible, for one must have read before one has learnt to think.
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Museums should be places where you raise questions, not just show stuff.
