Eric Thomas Quotes
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I told my agents that I love Holly Hunter and Frances McDormand and all of these women that are good at doing comedies as well as dramas.
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Doing voice-over work is something that I love to do, and it is a lot of fun at the same time.
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Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.
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On the whole, it is the rights and freedoms of all citizens that are crucial in Saudi Arabia and from those the rights of women will emanate.
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I don't usually watch a lot of TV, but 'Mad Men' changed my perspective. I admire Matthew Weiner who came up with the idea and wrote such a great TV series, and the broadcasting company for being bold enough to air such a series.
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I have a preference for film just because of the familiarity. It's what I know, and I sort of have nostalgia for it.
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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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I'm not a business girl. I will never be a business girl, but I will say, for Anna Wintour, that I respect successful people; I like things that are success.
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I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.
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The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?
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I'm not really clear what the whole deal is with flags. I like my flag, but I wouldn't die for it. There's issues of identity, of course. That's going to always come in. I, for example, don't want to be called a 'North Britisher.' I want to be Scottish.
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There are still 500,000 persons afflicted with leprosy in Latin America, so it is still very much present.
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It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.
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What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross.
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It is a big problem and so I don't know for sure if I say yes or no to Ferrari.
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A lot of female comedians will go up there in a sweatshirt and Converses, trying to dress themselves down, because it is sort of a boy's club. I'll go up in my heels. I like that people don't think I'll be funny. I'll take that on. I don't do standup comedy - I do standup and I do comedy, but I don't go up there and do jokes.
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In America, it is traditional to destroy the black body - it is heritage.
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It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought.
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I enjoyed working at R.K.O. more than at M.G.M. At R.K.O., the parts were better!
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I was raised with the notion that there is no greater honor than to find a way to serve your country.
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I have always regarded manual labour as creative and looked with respect-and, yes, wonder-at people who work with their hands. It seems to me that their creativity is no less than that of a violinist or painter.
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Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.
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One night I had a dream, and in that dream a big black man appeared to me and told me what to mix up for my hair. I made up my mind I would begin to sell it.
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Don't tell me you're going to be on the honor roll. Shut up! Go to work! And show me!
