Chuck Thompson Quotes
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I lived in America for a long time before I started working as an actor. Some actors show up on set and have never done an American accent before, so they rely on a slew of technical mechanisms. Part of what makes an accent is understanding why people speak that way - you have to understand the culture.
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If the British Isles had an official vegetable, it would have to be the potato.
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You just have to enjoy what you're doing. You just never know how people are going to receive it.
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Much like anyone with too much time on his or her hands, I feel as though I am the most important person on earth and everything I do is relevant. I say the most charming and inspired things when no one is around.
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You walk on a set, and you have no idea - that's why I don't storyboard. It's all possible.
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Food is not a means toward resolution. It can't cure heartbreak or solve untenable dilemmas.
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Whom am I going to trust if I have to back again.
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Once you achieve a level of success... you learn, something tells you, 'Man this ain't even for you.' You got to share with the people. You got to inspire the people.
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People hear the soul, black influence in my voice. I grew up listening to CKLW and all the black stations like WLBS.
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It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure.
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Pollock said several times that he couldn't separate himself from his art. Not knowing much about modern art when I began to read about him, I was much more his persona – his struggles as a human being – that was interesting to me.
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Facebook and Instagram are spiritual brothers.
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My parents led this double life. They were in the underground movement to bring down the Nazis. My father was hanged for being a traitor.
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'The X Factor' was the final push I needed to have the presence and confidence on stage, which I didn't have before. It's a crash course in the music industry. If you can survive the show, you're ready for the industry.
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All business is capitalistic. You require capital for any sort of business endeavour.
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If a man walk in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer; but if he spends his whole day as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making earth bald before her time, he is esteemed an industrious and enterprising citizen. As if a town had no interest in its forests but to cut them down!
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When the lambs is lost in the mountain, he said. They is cry. Sometime come the mother. Sometime the wolf.
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Pornography is the essential sexuality of male power: of hate, of ownership, of hierarchy; of sadism, of dominance.
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Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not against their poetry.
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From France, you can call anywhere in the world for free. Americans can't do that!
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I wanted to talk about my life. There is so much. I was 18 when I made the record, and I had a lot to say.
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I really dig the scene that's happening now, I really do, because there might be a lot of bad things going on, but if out of all of those bad things ten per cent of the groovy part of it stays, wow... you can't beat that.
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We're just happy, ... We wanted to win this game so bad. I've got to take my hat off to my teammates. They played big. They really picked me up tonight.
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No place is ever as bad as they tell you it's going to be.
