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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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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There are enough people who lost faith in me that it's time to step aside and let there be a new voice for the 6th district in Washington, so I am not going to run for re-election.
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For years, I have been stalked by a bad reputation. Actually, I have been pursued by people who have regarded me as the 'Death and Dying' Lady. They believe that having spent more than three decades in research into death and life after death qualifies me as an expert on the subject. I think they miss the point.
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I take the good with the bad, and I try to face them both with as much calm and dignity as I can muster.
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There’s not such thing as magic that does no harm.
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If you want to be witty, say what you think at all times.
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No place is ever as bad as they tell you it's going to be.
