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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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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And you must dare to do as many things as you dream of.
Nastassja Kinski -
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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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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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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Measuring national prestige by gold medals is like using Viagra to judge the potency of a man.
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Catholic school graduates exhibit a wide variety of qualities that will not only help them in their careers but also in their family and community lives.
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I left Mexico for artistic survival. If I had stayed, I would have been forced by the government, who control the movie business, to direct TV shows or commercials or infomercials for the government.
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Three hours for an average game is not good for baseball.
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As a player, I was fortunate to work with coaching and medical staffs that underscored the importance of utilizing injury prevention exercises, which contributed to my healthy and long playing career.
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A half a Vicodin and a Bahama Mama...makes for a bitchin' day!
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'Is he dead?' Irravel asked.'Depends what you mean by dead.'
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People who think about time travel stories sometimes think that going back in time would be fun because you would have all the information you needed to be much more astute than the people there, when the truth is of course you wouldn't.
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We're all capable of anything as human beings. Any emotion, any action. We really are.
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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.
