Clive Thompson Quotes
Plays are frequently infected with ideas that came from actors or even sound engineers. Some Shakespeare scholars wonder whether some of the Bard's lines came from onstage improvisations by actors.
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What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
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I've had enough boyfriends and enough issues. I'd seen enough train wrecks.
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I want to toy around with producing a Broadway show.
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The first play I saw was a Samuel Beckett play which was great.
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Being taken seriously, for a young writer, is a wonderful form of encouragement, but at the same time, I don't think one should ever feel like attempting a kind of artistic endeavor is beyond your scope just because of age or inexperience.
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Forgiving the men who killed my parents and brother was a process, a journey into deeper and deeper prayer.
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After I win a match, I celebrate it by having an ice cream.
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Unless you work for '60 Minutes', your life is: You do stories about things, and nothing happens as a result.
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I've always wanted to play Maria in West Side Story. My idol is Natalie Wood, and I love the movie, so I think a modern-day twist on it would be really neat.
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A lot of time mistakes are very interesting - you look for the behaviour that's not the one you expect.
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The 'chinked out' style is a school of hip hop - that's the way I like to think of it - that incorporates Chinese elements and sounds.
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I had 500 kids at camp this past summer for example. We do nine weeks for kids and nine days for grown ups every summer. The adult camp is a lot of fun.
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I want to be a mayor who helped, really helped.
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In a universe that's an intelligent system with a divine creative force supporting it, there simply can be no accidents. As tough as it is to acknowledge, you had to go through what you went through in order to get to where you are today, and the evidence is that you did.
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I try to travel as much as I can... I'm always looking for a reason to.
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Most people don't even get to be on TV, so I got to be on TV a bunch of times... I feel so lucky that I get to go back and forth between television and theater.
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We gave the world dab fever!
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I have my favourite black knife with me all the time. It's a switchblade. It relaxes me to flick it.
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The transformation of the world is brought about by the transformation of oneself.
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It's interesting how as an artist you keep evolving, but if you can get into the contemporary art space, if the works are in institutions and museums, they keep living on and on and on, even if you move to a different space, that work is still operating.
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In fact, from then on scholars engaged in a kind of game of comparing different Indo-European languages with one another, and eventually they could not fail to wonder what exactly these connections showed, and how they should be interpreted in concrete terms.
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I wonder whether being a scientist's daughter makes you so conflicted about free will and fate.
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I wish I had Wonder Woman's magic lasso like her to make people tell the truth.
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Plays are frequently infected with ideas that came from actors or even sound engineers. Some Shakespeare scholars wonder whether some of the Bard's lines came from onstage improvisations by actors.
