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.
Idris Elba -
If the British Isles had an official vegetable, it would have to be the potato.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
You just have to enjoy what you're doing. You just never know how people are going to receive it.
Madchen Amick -
You walk on a set, and you have no idea - that's why I don't storyboard. It's all possible.
Barry Jenkins -
Food is not a means toward resolution. It can't cure heartbreak or solve untenable dilemmas.
Kate Christensen -
Whom am I going to trust if I have to back again.
Kamisese Mara
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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.
Fat Joe -
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 -
It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. -
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 -
Facebook and Instagram are spiritual brothers.
Sam Altman -
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
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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.
Fleur East -
All business is capitalistic. You require capital for any sort of business endeavour.
P. J. O'Rourke -
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 -
When the lambs is lost in the mountain, he said. They is cry. Sometime come the mother. Sometime the wolf.
Cormac McCarthy -
Pornography is the essential sexuality of male power: of hate, of ownership, of hierarchy; of sadism, of dominance.
Andrea Dworkin -
Any time the country is split 50/50, the leader is wrong.
Charles Evers
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A woman's two cents worth is worth two cents in the music business.
Loretta Lynn -
This is the ultimate end of man, to find the One which is in him; which is his truth, which is his soul; the key with which he opens the gate of the spiritual life, the heavenly kingdom.
Rabindranath Tagore -
All gigs are good gigs. There's never a bad one. Everything have a reason behind it; you just got to find that reason.
Future -
If you are a 5-year-old, you just go ahead and try something. You don't think about it. You are just a little kid.
Quvenzhane Wallis -
In terms of essays, I would say Oliver Sacks. His breadth of hard knowledge and imagination and empathy seems to constitute the perfect mind to me.
Hilary Mantel -
No place is ever as bad as they tell you it's going to be.
Chuck Thompson