Chuck Thompson Quotes
Learn Languages the Right Way. Language acquisition games and abstract communicative method are bullshit. The second-best way to learn a foreign language is alone in a room doing skull-numbing rote memorization of vocabulary, grammar, key phrases, and colloquialisms. The best way is in bed.
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It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.
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When I'm writing the first draft, I'm writing in a very slovenly way: anything to get the outline of the story on paper.
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If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
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If you look at a lot of the songs I've been involved in, there's always been this retro vibe. I started getting worried that I wasn't moving forward very much, nor was I even in tune with the music today. I almost scoffed at it.
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When the audience enjoys your performance, you feel like a magician who is doing magic. It's a great feeling!
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It is a struggle for the minds of the people... No cause justifies recourse to terrorism.
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And you must dare to do as many things as you dream of.
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I'd visit the near future, close enough that someone might want to talk to Larry Niven and can figure out the language; distant enough to get me decent medical techniques and a ticket to the Moon.
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New York felt to me like what America should be - a representation of the world in this small pocket.
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Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.
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I think God just died of old age. And, when I realized that he wasn't any more, it didn't shock me. It seemed natural and right!
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I can't be a role model. I just can't be.
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It's an interesting but useless bit of information that every single character in 'The Lord of the Rings' and 'The Hobbit' wears a wig, and many of them wears a prosthetic - false ears, feet, hands. In my case, nose.
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My mum and dad used to make me stand up at dinner parties and sing to their friends.
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Redeem The time. Redeem The unread vision in the higher dream While jewelled unicorns draw by the gilded hearse.
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I have so many friends who hate their jobs and man, it's such a struggle trying to find what they love or what they dream of. I feel so lucky that I found what I love and my dreams have started to come true.
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History teaches, but it has no pupils.
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He thinks like a philosopher, but governs like a king.
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And we are put on earth a little space, That we may learn to bear the beams of love.
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I have a high regard for Native languages and the pivotal role they have played in our nation's history.
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Acting in film, you know, I hear all the time, people say 'You did so much better than I thought you would.' So there's an added element of surprise in film, different than in music.
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Ah, Mein Kampf is a Magna Charta.
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Learn Languages the Right Way. Language acquisition games and abstract communicative method are bullshit. The second-best way to learn a foreign language is alone in a room doing skull-numbing rote memorization of vocabulary, grammar, key phrases, and colloquialisms. The best way is in bed.
