Lea Thompson Quotes
I don't like a class system. I don't like the idea of being in a different class than other people.
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The character I play is a wonderful compilation of things I hate about myself and things I love about myself and things that I've invented to make her even more interesting than me.
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Gene Hackman is one of the great American actors of all time.
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The Bible is very clear about one thing: Using politics to create fairness is a sin.
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What makes me happy is having a really nice day out with my mum, or getting better at something I've been working hard at.
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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We were these arty punks from Hollywood. I considered myself an intellectual.
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Any effort to create a second class of Americans, I just can't swallow that.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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The publishing industry is an archaic and inefficient industry.
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I don't like denial. I don't like repression.
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Immigrants use the library often. A lot of them don't have access to books and Internet at home. They seem so disconnected to the city.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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You never know how long a player has left, especially with strikers. Once you turn 30, as a striker, you are usually on the way down, and playing from the age of 16, at such a high level, has to take its toll.
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My job as a leader is to make sure everybody in the company has great opportunities, and that they feel they're having a meaningful impact and are contributing to the good of society. As a world, we're doing a better job of that. My goal is for Google to lead, not follow that.
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Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria.
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Deep inside, I was hoping I'd win: The competition was tough, but I learned from other's mistakes.
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Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices parted ways.
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As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.
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It's easy not to bribe. But it's not so easy to keep a business running at the same time.
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To these ideals which were instilled in me when I was a youth, I attribute in a large degree the success that was mine on the bicycle tracks of the world.
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I started to itch to do a play again and 'Macbeth' came to the surface in my mind. I never thought I would do it in a conventional way. A sweaty Macbeth with blood on his arms coming in fresh from the battle doesn't interest me.
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You don't want to have a character say what's bothering him; you want to define characters by action.
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As the leader, you're empowering talent. Once you've given the direction, it's a joy to see it put into action, to see people on every level of the company carrying out the strategy.
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I don't like a class system. I don't like the idea of being in a different class than other people.
