Chuck Thompson Quotes

No place is ever as bad as they tell you it's going to be.

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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.

  

  Idris Elba
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• If the British Isles had an official vegetable, it would have to be the potato.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • British
  • Vegetable
  • Potato

• You just have to enjoy what you're doing. You just never know how people are going to receive it.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • People
  • Know
  • Enjoy

• You walk on a set, and you have no idea - that's why I don't storyboard. It's all possible.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Why
  • You
  • Walk

• Food is not a means toward resolution. It can't cure heartbreak or solve untenable dilemmas.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Food
  • Resolution
  • Heartbreak

• Whom am I going to trust if I have to back again.

  

  Kamisese Mara
  • Trust
  • Back
  • Going

• 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.

  

  Fat Joe
  • People
  • Success
  • Man

• People hear the soul, black influence in my voice. I grew up listening to CKLW and all the black stations like WLBS.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • People
  • Up
  • Soul

• It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Time
  • Education
  • Me

• 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.

  

  Ed Harris
  • Art
  • Knowing
  • Modern

• Facebook and Instagram are spiritual brothers.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Spiritual
  • Brothers

• 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.

  

  Veruschka von Lehndorff
  • Life
  • Father
  • Parents

• '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.

  

  Fleur East
  • Music
  • Confidence
  • Presence

• All business is capitalistic. You require capital for any sort of business endeavour.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Business
  • You
  • Sort

• 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!

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Time
  • Earth

• When the lambs is lost in the mountain, he said. They is cry. Sometime come the mother. Sometime the wolf.

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • Mother
  • Lost
  • Mountain

• Pornography is the essential sexuality of male power: of hate, of ownership, of hierarchy; of sadism, of dominance.

  

  Andrea Dworkin
  • Power
  • Hate

• Any time the country is split 50/50, the leader is wrong.

  

  Charles Evers
  • Time
  • Country

• If the thing that you want to happen is happening... it's no longer a movement.

  

  Marilyn Ferguson

• Business is all about the customer: what the customer wants and what they get. Generally, every customer wants a product or service that solves their problem, worth their money, and is delivered with amazing customer service.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Money
  • Business
  • Amazing

• I believe a lot in monogamy, let me tell you.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Believe
  • Me
  • Tell

• In my opinion, Slash is probably one of the last of the iconic guitar players carrying the torch of what it's really all about.

  

  Joey Kramer Aerosmith
  • Opinion

• I was not especially enthusiastic about opera when I was young, and I thought I would never write one. I felt it was an art form of the past, with expensive singers exposing their high notes, and bad theater, and ridiculous stories which don't concern us. But then little by little I realized that it can be defined very differently, that on the contrary opera can be something profound and not superficial - a wonderful meeting point for all the other arts.

  

  Kaija Saariaho
  • Writing
  • Art
  • Past

• No place is ever as bad as they tell you it's going to be.

  

  Chuck Thompson
  • Bad
  • Tell
  • Going To Be