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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My father was born in Newark, New Jersey, and my mother was born in Philadelphia. They both went to Stanford for grad school and met there.
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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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I have big dreams. I want to keep songwriting. Direct films. Be a parent.
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I love being as bad as possible! You've got to love a bad girl. Look at 'Gone With the Wind,' Scarlett O'Hara - total bad girl, but you love her.
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For a while we were chasing a book by Graham Greene to do Brighton Rock as a musical. We didn't get the rights, so we decided to create something from scratch, with Jonathan. By that time we were big fans of his work.
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I think when you're a mom and an actor, it forces you to leave any actor neuroses behind and just concentrate on the work.
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Truly huge artistic collaboration on the Internet seems to work only if the gang has a well-defined objective.
