Brother Theodore Quotes
My name, as you may have guessed, is Theodore. I come from a strange stock. The members of my family were mostly epileptics, vegetarians, stutterers, triplets, nailbiters. But we've always been happy.
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I started writing half a paragraph of a mystery novel, half a paragraph there, and they were terrible.
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People don't like to vote against something that's so incredibly popular.
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As for the device we now call a TV or a cable box, I want it to be fast with a clean interface and seamlessly upgradeable to the latest software. I want it to be the primary source of all TV, not an ancillary device.
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Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking.
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I didn't know Jack Kennedy that well, but Bobby was a hero to me.
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L.A. makes you feel ugly.
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I am an earnest advocate of manual training and trade teaching for black boys, and for white boys, too.
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I used to be able to think. My brain's circuits were all connected, and I had spark, a quickness of mind that let me function well in the world.
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The great fun for me is these collaborators. I'm nothing by myself. Being with these people, whether it's the 'Homeland' cast or stage collaborators, they make you everything you are. They make you come to work. They make you be alive.
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It's very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That's my rule.
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What I love about a play is that it's such an investment because only time can create a lot of what happens onstage.
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Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.
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Everybody in our family studied a musical instrument. My father was really big on that. Somehow I only took a year or two of piano lessons and I convinced my father to let me take dancing lessons.
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We are all the heroes and heroines of our own lives. Our love stories are amazingly romantic; our losses and betrayals and disappointments are gigantic in our own minds.
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All my life, my girlfriends are always skinny. Beauty in art has nothing to do with beauty in reality. Why do you like primitive art? Because there is beauty in the deformity. Sometimes paintings that people consider realistic are not at all. Raphael figures look realistic, but in real life, they were deformed.
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All cultures through all time have constantly been engaged in a dance with new possibilities for life. Change is the one constant in human history.
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I love men's wear.
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I hate the taste of alcohol. When I'm drinking, I'm drinking Red Bull.
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If we can tell a good story with characters audiences can care about, I'd like to think that prejudices can fall aside and people can just experience the story and these characters for the human beings that they are.
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I decided I'd try my hand as a stand-up comedian, as I loved making people laugh, and appeared at the Latitude Festival, won the 2007 Laughing Horse New Act of the Year, and was a nominee for winner of the 2007 So You Think You're Funny competition.
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I've read quite a few readers' reviews of my book on Amazon, saying, 'Ah, he criticises the free market, he advocates central planning.' I don't do that for a minute! But this is our black and white, dichotomous way of thinking - which has really been harmful.
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When you've worked as hard as I have to form your identity, the last thing you want is to blur where you end and someone else begins.
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I love women that have an ease to the way they dress. I think Vanessa Paradis and Alexa Chung do that very well.
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My name, as you may have guessed, is Theodore. I come from a strange stock. The members of my family were mostly epileptics, vegetarians, stutterers, triplets, nailbiters. But we've always been happy.
