Clive Thompson Quotes
Truly huge artistic collaboration on the Internet seems to work only if the gang has a well-defined objective.
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When my lady and I sit down and watch TV, I find she gets annoyed at characters because they don't do what she would do in the situation. I'm always like, 'Well, she has to do that because that's what the story is.'
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I do think that 'Pretty Little Liars' has raised the bar in how social media can tie into the fan base watching the show.
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It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.
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I've got to be honest, there's no pleasure when you're working.
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When I was 18, I couldn't wait to move away. I was like: 'If I ever have to come back here, I'll kill myself.' Glasgow seemed like failure and death to me back then, but not any more.
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I always try to start my weekend by running on the beach, which is great fun here in Barcelona.
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It is a political thriller. It's very action packed and it's very exciting, but at the same time it's a very big soulful love story about longing and loss. They're not separate, they're completely dependent on one another.
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Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school.
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A person can't have everything in this world; and it was a little unreasonable of her to expect it.
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We are convinced of the fundamental unity of the human family.
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I really love Alexa Chung's style. I really think she gets it right all the time. I've never seen a picture of her where I didn't love the outfit.
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Well, the average person comes home from work really tired, and just wants to flip through channels until they land on the thing that's the least objectionable to them. They're not looking for their new favorite TV show because they know that that search will take forever and they'll go to bed unhappy.
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Extreme poverty threatens people's right to life itself and makes impossible the enjoyment of the rights and freedoms essential to a humane way of life.
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I graduated from the University of Oklahoma, and I got the opportunity to take some on-camera classes while I was in school and met a casting director who informed me quite a bit before my move out to L.A.; it made L.A. feel possible, coming from Oklahoma and not having a family that was in the industry.
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There's a love of rhetorical skill in the Muslim world. Osama bin Laden doesn't just go on tape cassettes and say, 'America sucks.' He recites poetry; he finds things that 'America sucks' rhymes with.
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When we began Qualcomm, it had become quite clear that it was very important to patent new ideas.
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Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.
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You've gotta believe in yourself, and you just have to work harder at it than you've ever worked at anything before in your life. And if you keep doing that and keep believing in yourself, great things do happen.
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Like children all over the world, by the age of 10 I'd come to believe that most of the really humane creatures were not really human at all.
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One doesn’t just chuck away the story of one’s life, however much one wishes it had read differently.
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I think I happened to work with sort of a bunch of slightly difficult male directors when I was a kid. I've since worked with lots of male directors that I love, so I no longer see the distinction gender-wise.
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I was forced to lie to my father by doctors and relatives. I made that choice and agreed with them, and I will never, ever get over it. If I hear a lie in my life with my children, with my wife, my work, my audiences, I want to annihilate myself, vaporize myself, and wipe myself off the face of the earth.
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Every morning as I begin my work day, my computer presents me with the usual array of garbage: email, Twitter, updates on the state of the nation, updates on the state of the sneakers I just ordered.
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Truly huge artistic collaboration on the Internet seems to work only if the gang has a well-defined objective.
