Tom DeLonge (Thomas Matthew DeLonge Jr.) Quotes
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I would love to direct one day. I value the relationship that I have with a director so much, and I would be really excited to be on the other end of that relationship.
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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
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That was one of those moments where I felt so confident. I played three matches in the same day.
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I read Shakespeare when I was 14 because it's what we were taught.
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I'm ambitious, I want to play in the Champions League, and that's the aim with Tottenham - to start qualifying for the Champions League on a consistent basis.
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Any acceleration constitutes progress, Miss Glory. Nature had no understanding of the modern rate of work. From a technical standpoint the whole of childhood is pure nonsense. Simply wasted time. An untenable waste of time.
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It's very hard to put forth a film that's about love and the joy of love and for it not to be patronising and not make people nauseous or make them roll their eyes.
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I grew up in a funeral home, born and raised, and everyone was always like, 'Well, what was that like?' and I was like, 'It was normal', because it's all I knew.
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Once you're a Virginian, you're always a Virginian.
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If you get lazy when you're onstage, it shows.
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I just feed off the energy of the audience.
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But nothing beats a Woody Allen film on a Sunday night, with a glass of wine and some leftovers.
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Everything you say and do is having an impact on others.
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The money I earn from films means I can help the people I want to help - you can do a lot of good if you want to.
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I never had any film training. I went to Northwestern. I studied education and theater. So it was all theater training.
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Egyptian comedy has a very, very old tradition. Our theater and our movies are just, like, amazing. And Egypt is kind of like the Hollywood of the Middle East. I mean, we had cinema maybe decades before the other Arab countries ever got independence.
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Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach.
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The Israeli public is frustrated with the way it is portrayed abroad.
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I number my drafts, and by the time a book is done, I'll have 75 or 80 drafts of some sections.
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I was kind of excited about going to jail the first time and I learnt some great dialogue.
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I distracted myself from the fear and terrorism by thinking about things like how the universe began and whether time travel is possible.
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You can never solve a problem with the same kind of thinking that created the problem in the first place.
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I think there are a lot of different things that dreams do for the individual and they're fascinating because it's not totally known what they do, but we have some science that is opening the door to a new world as we speak.
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I think I might get laid more...by my dad.
