Chuck Thompson Quotes
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I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.
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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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Freedom and idiots make a volatile mix. And the sad truth is that the idiocy quotient in the general population is alarmingly high.
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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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I believe that everyone has a right to have an opinion about things or people, and fortunately, I have been lucky to have heard usually good things about myself. However, I must admit that people can be quite critical about your role also.
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We had this scene where I'm supposed to be bending over to get something. I thought it was kind of cute.
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If they didn't have ten fights a night, it was a bad night.
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The band? It's over. Reunited because of the good cause (Live 8), to get over the bad relationship, and not to have regrets.
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Many unfortunate human situations unfold ... where people who face very bad options take desperate gambles, accepting a high probability of making things worse in exchange for a small hope of avoiding a large loss. Risk taking of this king often turns manageable failures into disasters.
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No place is ever as bad as they tell you it's going to be.
