Eric Thomas Quotes
Character is like my fingerprint; it identifies me from everyone else in the world. It says who I am and where I am headed.
Eric Thomas
Quotes to Explore
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If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.
Edith Wharton
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If the sun comes up, I have a chance.
Venus Williams
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Many years ago... many, many years ago, I brought up a boy, and I said to him, 'Son, if you ever become a writer, try to write a good part for your old man sometime.' Well, by cracky, that's what he did!
Walter Huston
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I do respond well to a director, a teacher - someone who doesn't accept mediocrity.
J. K. Simmons
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I think from an actor's point of view, you always want something to play that's dramatic or something that feels like it could be very bold in choice. And of course, the boldest possible choice you could play at the end of a character's life is death.
Owain Yeoman
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I know the government needs to ensure economic growth... we just hope it takes care of the environment, too.
Ma Jun
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I see a lot of scripts, and very few of them leap off the page at you.
Sam Shepard
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The days of the Pentagon Papers debates seem long past, when a sudden transparency yielded insight into fights over war and peace and freedom and security; the transparency afforded by Twitter and Facebook yields insights that extend no further than a lawmaker's boundless narcissism and a culture's pitiless prurience.
Nancy Gibbs
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Marriage is a wonderful thing.
Patrick McGoohan
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When I planned to ski Everest, the first thing I faced was, 'How can I return alive?' All the preparation and training was based on this question. But the more I prepared, I knew the chance of survival was very slim. Nobody in the world had done this before, so I told myself that I must face death. Otherwise, I am not eligible.
Yuichiro Miura
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Though everything else may appear shallow and repulsive, even the smallest task in music is so absorbing, and carries us so far away from town, country, earth, and all worldly things, that it is truly a blessed gift of God.
Felix Mendelssohn
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The more we desire for that which is superfluous, the more we meet with difficulties; our strength and possessions are spent in unnecessary things, and are wanting when required for that which is necessary.
Maimonides
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Nobody would take me seriously. They would take one look at me and say, 'O.K., folk singer.' That was really hard for me, and I was angry a lot of the time. I did all these summer programs, and I never encountered another female playing jazz guitar. Ever.
Mary Halvorson
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Each individual is as individual as their fingerprints, and I think that's extraordinary.
Annie Lennox
Eurythmics
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There was all this loneliness in my cartoons and people would say, "Gee, these characters are so lonely, disconnected, depressed." And I'd say, 'Yeah well, that's not me. I'm just interested in that because I think it makes a funny drawing.' But later I understood it was me in many respects; my hand was doing it ahead of the head's understanding.
Michael Leunig
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Follow your own star!
Dante Alighieri
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I trained as a theater actor and you had a bare stage and you had to pretend, one prop and you are in the middle of 8th Ave. and traffic is just going by.
Benicio Del Toro
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Character is like my fingerprint; it identifies me from everyone else in the world. It says who I am and where I am headed.
Eric Thomas
