Thom Yorke Quotes
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Well, I was a big fan of the book and therein a huge fan of the girl Precious. And so I felt like I knew this girl. I felt like I'd grown up alongside her. I felt like she was in my family. She was my friend and she was like people I didn't want to be friends with.
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Growing up, I had a very happy childhood, with two parents who are still very much together.
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I want every day to be life for the living, not just traipsing through it existing. I'm just interested in life and the world and exploring.
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I like going to rifle and pistol clubs and joining them in target shooting. I also share the same respect for individual initiative and love of family.
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L.A. really doesn't feel like home to me anymore.
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I feel a big obligation to the audience, almost in a moral sense, to say something useful. If I'm going to spend a year of my life on these things, I want something that I feel that strongly about.
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I like seeing advanced acrobatics, but I also like to see more than tumbling. It's important to combine the artistry of gymnastics with the tough skills. It's called artistic gymnastics. We should stand by the name.
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We're in this entertainment business really to give the audience what they want.
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'Frida' was a joy; this was delicious, I couldn't wait every day to get to the set, although I was exhausted, and have my leg get cut off or lose the baby or be in her shoes and get to play my hero and be able to go places emotionally. You know, we live for parts like this. This is a dream for an actor.
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I haven't gone to college yet and I intend to in a few years.
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Every school should have well-rehearsed emergency response protocols covering a variety of possible scenarios, from fire to armed intruders. Schools should have good lines of communications with local emergency response officials and practice those relationships in drills and special exercises.
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I never, ever had it in my mind that I wanted to be in the record industry, because I still contend that the record industry is an insidious affair. It's this terrible collision between art and commerce, and it will always be that way.
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In most daily journalism, you only fact-check something if it seems a little fishy.
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I was born with an evil face.
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I was walking around bored one day, and I started filming stuff with my cellphone. There are all these shows where people are trying to do these outrageous stunts, and I thought it would be funny to do all these stunts that aren't outrageous but then act like they are.
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I feel like we can't pick who we fall in love with because if we could, we would all make better choices. Your heart just falls where it falls.
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In high school, I played in a Rush cover band.
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Believing a person deserves a defence is not the same as doing anything in your power to get him off scot-free.
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They say 15 million people are watching the show, but what does that mean, you know? It's not until I'm accosted on the street that I understand!
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It's very important to us, family, and the balance of family within the band is probably the most important. Metallica is important, but when you have your wife and your kids, and you need to maintain that and keep the peace, it's important to work around the schedule of the kids' schools.
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I did Polyester, and I don't regret one minute of it. It was wonderful.
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Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
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I'm a world-class people watcher. I like to watch people's body movements, their expressions. It says so much about them.
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Being in a band turns you into a child and keeps you there.
