Paul Thomson Quotes
We are trying to teach literature and literacy in a society which doesn't value it any more.
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I'm used to very low-budget situations. In 'The Exploding Girl,' we were literally changing in Starbucks because we didn't have trailers.
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In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497.
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I'm lucky enough to do what I like for work - not everyone's that fortunate.
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Technology is vital. We have to have development in new technology if we're going to solve these environmental problems without throwing humanity back in poverty.
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Until the year 1967, it was a crime, for which you could be put in prison, to make homosexual love to someone in your own house. If they came in and caught you at it, you could be put into prison. This has changed - I'm talking about England, incidentally.
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'Mojave' is a very wild, throwback film with these two dudes going after each other.
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I would listen to how they told the story, to what elements they used, to how it sounded, and that's who I patterned myself after, the people who were on CBS News.
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I can't help but have my sights set on Scorsese, Cohen Brothers and Spike Jones.
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I quite enjoy cooking. I love cooking for my friends. It's communal, it reminds me of being with family, and it's also a form of therapy; it heals you from the inside out.
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Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.
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A pocket square must always - always - be white and a bit wild. If it is too prepared, it is tacky.
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It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.
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If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsessed by Making.
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Being an entrepreneur means being a creative businessperson.
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I fully support U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in his Global Education First Initiative and the work of U.N. Special Envoy for Global Education Gordon Brown and the respectful president of the U.N. General Assembly Vuk Jeremic. I thank them for the leadership they continue to give.
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My dear fellow, the truth isn't quite the sort of thing one tells to a nice, sweet, refined girl.
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The double-sun system was relatively poor in comets; there were only a hundred billion of them.
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Like a steely blade in a silken sheathWe don't see what they're made ofThey shout about love, but when push comes to shoveThey live for the things they're afraid ofAnd the knowledge that they fear is a weapon to be used against them...- The Weapon (Part II of 'Fear') (1982)
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I paint the way I do because I can keep on putting more and more things in - like drama, pain, anger, love, a figure, a horse, my ideas of space. It doesn't matter if it differs from mine, as long as it comes from the painting, which has its own integrity and intensity.
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If you're not proud of where you work, go work somewhere else.
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I always just looked really like someone who will someday be on prescription medication.
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The family is the single most important institution in Afghan culture. It is described in the country's constitution as the 'fundamental pillar of society'.
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I think people have always had ambiguous relationships toward the police because of the position in society they occupy. But that anxiety and that animosity isn't as strong in other places as it is in the U.S., partially because the police are armed here.
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We are trying to teach literature and literacy in a society which doesn't value it any more.
