Lea Thompson Quotes
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I've also learned to no longer feel guilty if I'm invited out and don't want to go. If I start to say to myself, 'What's wrong with you that you're staying in five nights in a row to watch 'Forensic Files' instead of going out with your friends' I remind myself that it's what I need to do for myself at that point.
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When I was in the private sector, I found it immensely useful to go out and talk to customers and co-workers.
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Dreams are not without meaning wherever thay may come from-from fantasy, from the elements, or from other inspiration.
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Peoplehood tends to develop into nationhood if the people achieves a certain maturity. This is analogous to an individual person who becomes acquainted with herself only in the course of her life, without being able to say that she possessed no personal uniqueness at all before that 'self-recognition.'
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Cancer didn't change me at all. I know lots of people talk about the life revelation. I didn't have that.
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We don't have any power other than our intellect and our hearts.
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I like to play the ukulele, but I'm not, like, awesome at it. I mostly play the piano and the guitar.
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By 2020, 50 percent of imports should be reduced, which should become 75 percent by 2025. By 2030, India should be energy independent.
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Old friends, like old shoes, are comfortable. But old shoes, unlike old friends, tend not to be supportive: it is easier to stumble and sprain an ankle while wearing a pair of old shoes than it is in new shoes, with their less yielding leather.
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I have the happy circumstance of either being accused of political grandstanding on the one hand or cover-ups on the other.
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I'm always trying to find the next comedian that just gives me something a little funny to combine with all of the depressing news that I'm processing.
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The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren't always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.
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I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction.
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If I talk to a new guy, it's because the old guy bores me, and I already wrote a bunch of songs about him.
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I don't think writers really choose their subjects. I think the subjects, the topics, the themes, choose us, and then we make the most of what we have. For Trollope, society; for Roth, Jews. For me, apparently, love. Why hide it?
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There's two aspects of film crafting that I'm very strict about, and that's how I move my camera and where I cut the film.
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I'm totally, totally into old Vegas.
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Terrorism benefits the Arabs, it may lay waste the Yishuv and shake Zionism. But to follow in the Arabs' footsteps and ape their deeds is to be blind to the gulf between us. Our aims and theirs run counter: methods calculated to further theirs, are ruinous to us.
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The attack and our response show just how vital Arizona's military bases are to the defense of our country. We need to do everything we can to protect them.
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A risk for a poet-novelist is imbalance: The poems can flatten into prose or lose their intensity of focus; the novels can stall amid lofty writing or literary preciousness and ignore the engine of plot and character.
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My father used to tape 'Top of the Pops' for me every Sunday, and I would sit in my bedroom, write down the lyrics of all of my favourite songs, and sing along. I was always singing in my bedroom with a hairbrush.
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Some people might be groomed for success; I've just always thought I've got a hell of a lot of things to learn and places to go. Creatively, I couldn't stay on the same treadmill. I chose to be off-centre and do collaborative work.
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In my deepest parts of sadness, I'm always making a joke or being sarcastic.
