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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Being body positive is really important to your overall happiness. It's hard to see someone with a 'perfect' body and be like, 'Why can't I be like her?' But that person was born to be who she is, and you're born to be who you are.
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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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A stylist understands our body language; they know what works and what doesn't. I'm happy this concept has caught on in the South film industry.
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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 used to do a lot of comedy. I don't know what happened. I think it's my face.
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Friendship is only friendship when it is real. Passionate and relentless. Forgiving and joyful. Don't forget today to have real moments with your friends. Not a text, or a tweet, an Instagram-- that's all deceit. Hold real hands, kiss genuine lips, be a truly strong human force.
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I will exercise patience and will provide all facts to the general public.
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Six feet three in her stocking feet, L'Wren Scott was every inch a great lady.
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My writing is a combination of three elements. The first is travel: not travel like a tourist, but travel as exploration. The second is reading literature on the subject. The third is reflection.
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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.
