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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The corporations have already planted their own bombs. All we have to do is light the fuses.
Neal Stephenson -
People think a Muslim has to have a turban or a big beard. It's stupid.
T-Pain -
The hardest thing to do in politics is campaign as someone you aren't. People can spot an imposter from a mile away.
Chuck Todd -
I like many different kinds of music. My favourite band is Radiohead, and I'm also a giant Jeff Buckley fan.
Christopher Masterson -
Learning to stand in somebody else's shoes, to see through their eyes, that's how peace begins. And it's up to you to make that happen. Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.
Barack Obama -
No place is ever as bad as they tell you it's going to be.
Chuck Thompson