Bright Light Bright Light (Rod Thomas) Quotes
I like being immersed in other peoples’ situations, I find that very inspiring. I don’t like to look inwards too much when I’m starting to think about records or different songs. I’m a keen observer. It’s endlessly fascinating.
Quotes to Explore
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In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.
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I don't know the right way to retire.
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I love sailing but hate cruise ships.
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Anything that I can do with Jennie Garth, I would love to do it. I really like her. I got along with her really well, and I enjoyed her perspective on life. I think she's really talented and very, very funny.
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I always try to live in the moment.
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You make a movie with some people, you become friends over the process of making this movie and then... you go your own way.
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Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life.
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I had phenomenal parents. They kept me very grounded, and I lived a normal life.
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Are we really so far from the Victorians? Much of what our society holds important was shaped in the 19th century.
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There will be times when you just can't seem to land an acting job, and you feel like giving up. Don't! The only way to realise that dream is to keep working hard for it.
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Why must everybody like you?
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There is a reality - so subtle that it becomes more real than reality. That's what I'm trying to get down in photography.
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My dad taught me how to fish. When I am stand in a trout stream now, and I have the waders on, and I've got a fly rod in my hand, or I am fishing for bass, I think of sitting in a boat with my dad. How can that be a bad experience?
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I feel I'm often misunderstood by critics. People project a lot or exaggerate the subjective fragility simply because it's frightening to them.
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I do believe in ghosts, or at least in some kind of persistent spiritual echoes of the past in certain places.
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I've never been traditional, and I hate conforming to anything.
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You can make yourself feel better about yourself if you project your shadow side, if you project your own potential for evil onto someone else. By annihilating them and, therefore, your shadow, you bring yourself into some state of purity or reformation.
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I have a very nice voice.
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I have done work that has appealed my heart, and 'Total Siyappa' is something I really liked.
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I think there's an innocence to me.
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Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.
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I have sung in hobo jungles, and I have sung for the Rockefellers, and I am proud that I have never refused to sing for anybody.
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That's what I love about songwriting - that you can write something about your own experiences and think it's completely specific to you, and then people can take away a completely different meaning for themselves. I really love that. I think you've been successful at writing a song when it has a larger life than yourself.
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I like being immersed in other peoples’ situations, I find that very inspiring. I don’t like to look inwards too much when I’m starting to think about records or different songs. I’m a keen observer. It’s endlessly fascinating.
