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.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Work
  • Spirit
  • Matter

• Like, radio is closer to a Tumblr, or a blog, or Twitter, than it is to television, I think.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Think
  • Television
  • Radio

• 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.

  

  Ed Harris
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• You can really taste the difference between a shop-bought and a good homemade mayo.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Good
  • You
  • Difference

• Turkey is a safe country. Stay there.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Country
  • Safe
  • Turkey

• 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.

  

  Imran Khan
  • People
  • Good
  • Live

• 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.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • People
  • Up
  • Death

• I wanted to experience New York, to look up and see buildings.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Up
  • Experience
  • Look

• 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.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Up
  • Important
  • Play

• 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.

  

  Olivia Williams
  • Up
  • Fun
  • Age

• One reason why I don't drink is because I wish to know when I am having a good time.

  

  Nancy Astor
  • Time
  • Good
  • Reason

• I'm cool with myself. If I can't have the body of Angie Bassett, so be it.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Myself
  • Cool
  • Body

• I hate to repeat lines, to say the same damned thing. I try to rewrite cliches and make what I say sound fresh.

  

  Gary McCord
  • Hate
  • Same
  • Sound

• 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.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Time
  • Why
  • Kids

• We must start to treat climate change as what it is - a threat to United States security. And we must not delay.

  

  Jackie Speier
  • Change
  • Climate Change

• 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.

  

  Xavi
  • Football
  • Win
  • Legacy

• I've turned down twentysomething million dollars for movies.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Movies
  • Down
  • Million

• I feel a physical happiness when spring is coming.

  

  Halldor Laxness
  • Happiness
  • Feel
  • Spring

• I'm glad now, at age 66, that I never used alcohol or tobacco... I've buried a lot of friends who used tobacco or alcohol.

  

  Jerry Falwell
  • Friends
  • Age
  • Alcohol

• Being seduced by a man on crutches was an interesting experience.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Experience
  • Man
  • Interesting

• I don't know any writer for whom it comes easily. Maybe John Updike - a story would just seem to come to him whole, you know, out of a personal experience. But the rest of us, I think, are not so lucky, and I had to work hard, yeah.

  

  Philip Roth
  • Work
  • Experience
  • Rest

• When asked whether or not we are Marxists, our position is the same as that of a physicist or a biologist when asked if he is a 'Newtonian,' or if he is a 'Pasteurian'. There are truths so evident, so much a part of people's knowledge, that it is now useless to discuss them.

  

  Che Guevara
  • People
  • Knowledge

• The whole experience of doing a sitcom is... Telling jokes with such precision is really exciting, but it's also terrifying.

  

  Lea Thompson
  • Experience