Geoff Thompson Quotes
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Daniel was a wonderful and trustworthy partner. And a fine prankster as well.
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You think about taking audiences on a journey.
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These days i tend to use one project I do as a kind of offshoot to the next.
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Muzzle a dog and he will bark out of the other end.
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We never left a set until we'd trashed it.
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I think we all carry the seeds of our own destruction. You really have to be aware that just because something is good, it doesn't mean it's not going to trigger a self-destructive impulse.
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I don't want to be an action star; action star's life is so short. I want my life to get longer. I want my career to get longer.
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Grandfather was an old-fashioned pharmacist who never ceased venting his resentment at the growing number of retail items the drugstore had to carry, and he would go into periods of fearful rage when the subject of chain stores was raised.
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With 'Palo Alto' as the catalyst, I've surrounded myself with people that have kind of created a world where I can feel like I'm not gonna be judged for doing something that I want to do.
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It's always a Catch-22 situation. They hate you if you're the same, and they hate you if you're different.
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I had cooked a lot in restaurants, in Rocky Point and on golf courses on Long Island, and my mother said, 'Be a chef,' and my dad said, 'Be a lawyer.' But instead, I auditioned for N.Y.U.'s Tisch School of the Arts.
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Never think that lack of variability is stability. Don't confuse lack of volatility with stability, ever.
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Having fans wherever I go gives me an energy, and it is the source of my power.
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It seems like women are always told, 'It is not your time.'
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I never like to wear too much makeup, and sometimes the best makeup is when it's not too perfect. I like to sometimes apply my makeup with my fingers.
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I'm pretty hard on myself in general.
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I've gone to school for business, for design, for architecture.
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I'm lucky to attribute my success to the foundation my family gave me. I've always felt grounded in them.
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To me, cinema is not a movie or a TV screen, and it's not a seat in a building versus one in your living room. It's the art of motion pictures.
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In a minimal interior, what you don't do is as important as what you do.
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In 2009, I edited, under the aegis of the Library of America, an anthology called 'Becoming Americans: Immigrants Tell Their Stories from Jamestown to Today.' It featured immigrants from different backgrounds, from black slaves like Phillis Wheatley to Yiddish-language speakers like Henry Roth.
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If you've got a dollar and you spend 29 cents on a loaf of bread, you've got 71 cents left; But if you've got seventeen grand and you spend 29 cents on a loaf of bread, you've still got seventeen grand. There's a math lesson for you.
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I train for the first shot – it’s all I need.
