T. J. Thyne Quotes
Actors only have our bodies, voices, and the text. So I think actors need to have a fit and in-tune body. I was always very disciplined in wanting to have that. That's one of my favorite things - playing a role with a physical requirement.
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Injuries are a huge thing for skating. I think skating is a very unnatural sport for the body, very tough on the joints.
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I'm a bit of a 'Throny,' as I think the 'Game of Thrones' fans refer to themselves.
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People tweet before they think, and it becomes obsessive.
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I think that as you get older, you become aware of everything that could go wrong.
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I've just come back from Mississippi and over there when you talk about the West Bank they think you mean Arkansas.
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My own tastes happen to be in tune with what the public wants. I think that's the reason my batting average is so high, not because I've discovered some brilliant formula.
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Being bi-racial and being from the country, I can talk to guys like Travis Frederick from Wisconsin and Doug Free from Wisconsin. And then I can go over and talk to Dez Bryant. I mean, think about the two different standpoints you need to have a real conversation with both, to really understand what they've been through.
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Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
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Tenured professors are more prone than the rest of us to think that the university is the universe.
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For all of my fortune, there are many with misfortune that need a hand.
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I don't feel that rap has been respected as an art form. Because people have seen rappers rap off the top of their heads, they don't think it is difficult.
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What Alexander Graham Bell thought up occupied less space than a flower vase. Now it's so small that I have to search all my pockets to discover I've received a spam text.
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I think I've become more comfortable about being a human being.
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I have to write what I can write, and writing the text of a picture book is like walking a tightrope, if you ramble off... As my friend Julius Lester says, 'A picture book is the essence of an experience.'
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I'm the one who often makes the 'Murder, She Wrote' reference, and ABC hates that, they don't want me to do that. And I say that having never actually watched 'Murder, She Wrote'. I think people have been trying to compare it to crime shows that are on right now, and all I can do is listen. I don't watch a lot of TV.
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Repetition is based on body rhythms, so we identify with the heartbeat, or with walking, or with breathing.
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I developed an optical lure that imitates certain types of bioluminescent displays that I think might be attractive to large predators. The other way to do it is just use dead bait, but I think dead bait attracts scavengers, and we wanted to attract active predators.
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I reject the insurance model. I think we should have a free-market approach to healthcare.
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To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.
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I think the meaning of abortion is what the woman says it is: For a woman who wants a child but can't have this one, it can be sad; for a woman who doesn't want a baby, it can feel like a huge relief, like having your whole life given back to you.
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Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood... will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic.
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People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
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Actors only have our bodies, voices, and the text. So I think actors need to have a fit and in-tune body. I was always very disciplined in wanting to have that. That's one of my favorite things - playing a role with a physical requirement.
