Lea Thompson Quotes
The whole experience of doing a sitcom is... Telling jokes with such precision is really exciting, but it's also terrifying.
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What we do for a living does not matter so much as how we do it. It is the spirit in which we do our work that counts, and that counts through all eternity.
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Like, radio is closer to a Tumblr, or a blog, or Twitter, than it is to television, I think.
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There's, what, 300 films at the Telluride or Toronto or something. How many are those people gonna see? How many of those are actually gonna be in a theater, you know? You know, as an actor, I mean, I learned a long time ago that the fulfillment in this business is the doing of it because you can't rely on anything coming out.
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You can really taste the difference between a shop-bought and a good homemade mayo.
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Turkey is a safe country. Stay there.
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Cross-cultural marriage is difficult, especially when one person has to live in another country. But I thought there was a very good chance of it working because people grow together if they have a common passion.
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Do I favor the death penalty? Theoretically, I do, but when you realize that there's a 4 percent error rate, you end up putting guilty people to death.
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I wanted to experience New York, to look up and see buildings.
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The Sherpas play a very important role in most mountaineering expeditions, and in fact many of them lead along the ridges and up to the summit.
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From a very young age, I wanted to get up on stage whenever I went to the theatre - the actors just seemed to be having so much fun. One of my worries about theatre, in fact, is that the actors are quite often having more fun than the audience.
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One reason why I don't drink is because I wish to know when I am having a good time.
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I'm cool with myself. If I can't have the body of Angie Bassett, so be it.
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I hate to repeat lines, to say the same damned thing. I try to rewrite cliches and make what I say sound fresh.
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When I was a child, I was one of the kids who wore black all the time, and when the kids asked me why I wore black, I said things like, 'I'm mourning the death of modern society.' I mean, I was a riot.
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We must start to treat climate change as what it is - a threat to United States security. And we must not delay.
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In football, the result is an impostor. You can do things really, really well but not win. There's something greater than the result, more lasting - a legacy.
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I've turned down twentysomething million dollars for movies.
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I feel a physical happiness when spring is coming.
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More and more, museums will look at restaurants and chefs differently - as if they are curating art.
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I hope the Guggenheim plan will be revived.
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We are moving into that phase where we expect that wage growth will catch up and take productivity over.
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I get better roles in television. I'm not going to do a lesser role just to be in a feature film.
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The whole experience of doing a sitcom is... Telling jokes with such precision is really exciting, but it's also terrifying.
