Lea Thompson Quotes
'Caroline In The City' was such an interesting thing, because I'd never been on the set of a sitcom or even auditioned for a sitcom when they gave me that part.
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I started to work in television for three or four years, in 1954. There was one channel of television, black and white. But it could be entertaining and educational. During the evening they showed important plays, opera or Shakespeare's tragedies.
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I do a movie once every four years and they call it a comeback.
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Anyone can be a Superman, but nobody can be Jackie Chan.
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Anything that instills a sense of hope will at least temporarily help treat depression.
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When we talk about change, we, the business leaders, have to implement it. We have to look at what we're not doing and what we should be doing.
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I am not a great fan of computers. I do watch videos and analyse which batsman is playing how. Batsmen can play different shots on different days. A batsman may not play cover drives well, but if he connects with two such shots, he starts playing the drive well on that day.
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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
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Winning, you can overlook so many things.
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I had decent but not great grades in high school because I was highly motivated in some subjects, like the arts, drama, English, and history, but in math and science I was a screw-up. Wooster saw something in me, and I really flourished there. I got into theatre, took photography and painting classes.
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Whenever someone says the word community, I want to reach for an oxygen mask.
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I did one of those 'born again' things and invited Jesus to become the chairman of the board, of my life.
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However, we still have the problem of free travel and movement, since the Travel Documents issued by UNMIK as the substitute to passports, are not fully recognized yet by all countries.
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On buses and trains, I always think about the inexhaustible variety of human genes. We see types, and occasionally twins, but never doubles. All faces are unique, and this is exhilarating, despite the increasingly plastic similarity of TV stars and actors.
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The way I feel about music is that there is no right and wrong. Only true and false.
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As far as I'm concerned, you're a feminist by default if you're born in the Western world right now.
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The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.
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We're just a real dirty band. We're raw, and we're rough. None of us are top-scale, top-line musicians. But I tell you what, you get your top-line musicians and see if they can entertain like us.
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Jazz infers a style, but creative music has a wider field and wider specification about it. We know it from people like Scott Joplin and on through Bessie Smith.
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It's hard to remember, when you look at a magazine or when you look at pictures of people, and you forget that those people are people like you. They have flaws and insecurities. That's so easy to forget, even for me, as somebody who's sometimes in those magazines.
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Around-the-clock support is crucial for children receiving palliative care. They and their families often need help every hour of every day, both in hospices and at home.
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A civilization, a culture, cannot survive without passion, cannot be saved without passion.
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Now I have new stories and I feel refreshed. There is talk of Bobby's World eventually coming back. I would be happy to do that.
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I've always thought the Nat Turner story to be very interesting.
Colson Whitehead -
'Caroline In The City' was such an interesting thing, because I'd never been on the set of a sitcom or even auditioned for a sitcom when they gave me that part.
