Colin Thompson Quotes
...because if you tell a lie when you are being eaten by a nearly dead queen, you are always struck dumb.
Quotes to Explore
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There's certain things as a songwriter that I don't really care to write about, and there are certain things I won't sing about anymore. There are just so many things that I probably thought was OK for me, or have been in the past, that I would never want my son to think was OK.
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Bulls can do nothing to demand justice. They can only defend themselves as best they can in a fight with a pre-determined ending and die never knowing why they were forced to endure such a painful and prolonged death. It's up to us, as a civilized society, to call for an end to the Running of the Bulls and bullfighting.
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We can only learn to love by loving.
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So now I don't have time to practice drums. It's been five years since I've touched the drums.
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I play-acted and started performing, which just logically led to doing it in school, which led to studying it in college, which led to auditioning to the showcase in New York. And then I had an agent, and I was an actress.
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My music is not just about entertainment. It is about enlightenment also.
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Rock and Roll has no beginning and no end for it is the very pulse of life itself.
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There is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheeled universe.
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I was reading about all of these medical and psychological experimental programs that the government and various intelligence agencies had run throughout the 20th century. Any book you can read on that, there's some really horrifying and fascinating stuff that goes on there.
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Producing is hell, writing is frustrating, acting is really satisfying, directing is heaven.
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Life is going to unfold as it should because life always does.
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I don't back down. I don't cave when the pressure gets too great from these partisan political ideological forces.
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My style is an extension of acting and an outcome of some serious lessons I picked up learning when I did theatre in my early days.
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What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
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We invented the car, and it made it easier for us to crash and die. If I gave a car to my grandfather, he would die in five minutes, while I have grown up slowly to accept speed.
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I remember being very influenced by 'Taxi Driver', and also Tommy Lee Jones in 'Coal Miner's Daughter' a little bit.
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Through the years I have seen myself as a peaceful person, but the awareness of the anger is part of that process.
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I'm learning every day.
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Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.
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In Hungary, acting is a career for which one fits himself as earnestly as one studies for a degree in medicine, law, or philosophy.
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The heavens and the earth may be captured by the mind's eye.
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Look on the bee upon the wing 'mong flowers; How brave, how bright his life! then mark, him hiv'd, Cramp'd, cringing in his self-built, social cell, Thus it is in the world-hive; most where men Lie deep in cities as in drifts.
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I like bangers and really testosterone-fueled stuff.
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...because if you tell a lie when you are being eaten by a nearly dead queen, you are always struck dumb.
