Craig Thompson Quotes
I grew up in a very fundamentalist, evangelical Christian household. Both my parents were born-again - their faith infused every aspect of my childhood. I'll probably spend most of my life working through that.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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I saw Mercury Prize-winners Alt-J for the first time recently, touring their debut album 'An Awesome Wave,' and I'm still riding the high: they're the most musically dynamic and exciting band to have poured tune into my lug holes live since Bellowhead.
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I've done some music for films and I really enjoy doing it.
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More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
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I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.
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Acting was just another part of my life, as it still is today. It's 1 of the 10 things I love doing. It's never just been my life. As cheesy as it sounds, all my eggs were never in just one basket. I had a thousand baskets going on.
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When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.
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Al Qaeda has overplayed their hand. What the al Qaeda do when they go into a town or village or a neighborhood inside a major city is they get a stranglehold on the people themselves. They force the men to wear beards and the women to be properly costumed and essentially completely covered up.
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But I'd say 'How to Make It in America' is the most accurate depiction of the New York hipster community on television for sure.
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Nobody seems to know yet how television is going to affect the radio, movies, love, housekeeping or the church, but it has definitely revived vaudeville.
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I only know what I read in the papers.
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I am not trying to make an image; I am an actor trying to sell movies.
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I don't look at myself as a Scream Queen, and I don't plan on continuing on this genre route. If anything, I want to go very different places.
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I think that marriage of music and picture is so vital, especially in a film that's almost exclusively exteriors.
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The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
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The mandate that I got from my investors is to invest. So far, we are on the right track, and it is the right formula to invest in Indonesia.
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I prefer to connect with fans from the stage. Like, I don't have a Twitter page, or anything like that. So for me, that's what the show is about. For me - is a way to interact with fans; being up onstage and showing them, through music - which is all I really know - the best way to say thank you.
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I belonged to Stratford Children's Theater when I was a boy growing up in Manchester. Even then, I was always doing character parts.
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I've always tried to do shows in a filmic way. I like it when forms smack up against each other.
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We don't have much in the way of a business strategy. Like no business plan. Which I say to torment all my friends who are VCs or MBAs. That's always entertaining. The deal is, it's a mixture of luck and persistence.
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I grew up in a very fundamentalist, evangelical Christian household. Both my parents were born-again - their faith infused every aspect of my childhood. I'll probably spend most of my life working through that.
