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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Any time the country is split 50/50, the leader is wrong.
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I cannot wait to come back to Glasgow. I know the place like the back of my hand. In fact, one of the jobs I had as a student was in Cineworld. And I was always at gigs in King Tut's, Nice 'n' Sleazy's and the Barras. I played Ultimate Frisbee down on Glasgow Green and pulled pints in O'Neill's on Queen Street.
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I'll tell you what I miss most. What I would love to do, more than anything, is just anthologies. With an anthology you can tell any story and be in every division of television. We don't have any anthologies anymore, do we?
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The introduction of political pluralism often quickly led to bad results.
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You can think your way into or out of almost any circumstance, good or bad.
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No place is ever as bad as they tell you it's going to be.
