Colin Thompson Quotes
They live down on gallery two in the Chinese Sixteenth.’ ‘Don’t you mean the Chinese Quarter?’ said Peter. ‘No. That would be a quarter of a gallery,’ Festival explained. ‘This is only a sixteenth.’
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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I act for love. I give it my all. I would probably still do it even if I wasn't paid at all. But in terms of equal pay, I need to be paid the same as the guy who has equal billing with me. Otherwise, I won't do it. Because if you accept less, you're just letting everyone else down and continuing the cycle.
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A country that does not fulfill its tasks in protecting the external borders has to cope with the consequences.
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Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.
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It is my hope that I will be able to work with legislative leaders on both sides of the aisle and Gov. Hickenlooper to find a solution to fix our ailing pension system.
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
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Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States - old as well as new - North as well as South.
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I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.
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Well, I think the world changes around you - I think you don't change. That's as simple as that.
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I had just 15 days to work on my body for the climactic fight of 'Bodyguard.' And I would work on every muscle of my body two/three times a week. I would have developed a superb body if I had three months, but squeezing it into 15 days can be harmful. Also, as you grow older, your metabolic rate slows down.
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If you're doing a prison show, HBO is the absolute best place in the world to be doing that because you're not going to have to do all that, you know, 'Prison Break' stuff where you can't really behave and speak like people do in a maximum-security prison.
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I think subsuming political and economic conflicts into some grand 'clash of civilisations' theory or 'the West versus the rest' binary is a particularly insidious form of ideological deception.
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Strong families are vital to strong societies.
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Ain't no problem with me and Kevin Gates; everybody just trippin'.
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I remember that in Baltimore, where I grew up, we would drive by the radio station and tower of WBAL, and I would try to picture the people inside and what they did there.
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Not all paintings are abstract; they're not all Jackson Pollock. There's value in a photograph of a man alone on a boat at sea, and there is value in painting of a man alone on a boat at sea. In the painting, the painting has more freedom to express an idea, more latitude in being able to elicit certain emotion.
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I've always been multi-cultural myself. I'm not black and I'm not white and I'm not pink and I'm not green. Eartha Kitt has no color, and that is how barriers are broken.
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All the vested interests and people who profit by war will - with the journals they control - resolutely oppose any reduction of armaments.
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From an early age, music was my only thing. You come from Detroit, you learn how to make the most of what you can do best.
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Only in the books written in earlier times did she sometimes think she found some faint idea of what it might be like to be alive.
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My work participates in that really quick and easy and inexpensive material that's part of our culture. In that way, my work engages the means of production that we live with, even while it's classical and embodies some things from a very long time ago.
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Live with no excuses and love with no regrets.
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Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.
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They live down on gallery two in the Chinese Sixteenth.’ ‘Don’t you mean the Chinese Quarter?’ said Peter. ‘No. That would be a quarter of a gallery,’ Festival explained. ‘This is only a sixteenth.’
