Linda Thompson Quotes
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My love of music comes from as long as I remember. I begged my mum to learn piano for a year when I was 4; she wanted to make sure I was serious, and I wanted to be Chuck Berry when I grew up! We were a very musical family; my mum would play guitar, and her, my dad and aunt would sing and harmonize!
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Education for all seems to be the product of a type of distributive justice that is in no way related to the individual.
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Generally, I get bad reviews in Turkey.
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Writing is only the frosting on my cake. I'm whole without it.
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It's easy for me to care about Toronto, because Toronto is a community that cares about itself. It represents the world. It talks to itself, and because it does, it figures out that there must be a music garden as part of its existence.
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Flyaway, problem hair is the enemy of feminism, and was probably invented by the Man to crush Susan Sontag.
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Eventually, I decided that if I was going to really write a novel, I couldn't do it in New York City while holding down a job. You need a constant money source to live in New York City unless you're independently wealthy, which I'm not.
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I'm fascinated by sports, the buzz of winning, and the buzz of losing.
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The outfield is solid, so is the catching and the infield.
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The way to screw up somebody's life is to give them what they want.
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Every character has their reasons - even the characters who do dumb things.
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I have a weird vision of relationships because my parents have known each other since second grade, and they got married right out of college.
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Georgia O'Keeffe proposed that I live with her. She was in New Mexico then, and I wanted to be in New York.
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I'm noise-sensitive. It's always better for me if things are quiet, so I can concentrate.
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Britain can sometimes feel like a very small village, and you're this, I dunno, scarlet woman they're all gossiping about.
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The kind of world I'm endlessly going on about is pretty well doomed, but nevertheless I think there are recesses of it worth celebrating.
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The teachers are everywhere. What is wanted is a learner.
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I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him.
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You know, when I first started making online videos, there were a lot of filmmakers I befriended who were doing it too.
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In my years, I have seen that people must be their own gods and make their own good fortune. The bad will come or not come anyway.
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I started Save the Libraries in 2010 by hosting a big fundraiser in my city library of DeKalb County in Atlanta. Through that, I learned that even with fundraisers, libraries often don't make money - they just barely break even.
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I kept looking to do songs that were written years ago and would live or outlive all of us, and the one thing they had in common was Sinatra.
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I just don't want to make the same old movies. I'm not interested in it. Directing's hard. It takes up a lot of your life, and I'm not that interested in making the same old film.
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I never felt more loved than when I was with Elvis.
