Thom Yorke Quotes
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The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take an act of super-human concentration to explain the final realization.
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Cinema affects everything, from the way I get dressed to how I build my stages.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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I suffer the mortification of seeing myself attacked right and left by people at home professing patriotism and love of country who never heard the whistle of a hostile bullet. I pity them and the nation dependent on such for its existence. I am thankful, however that, though such people make a great noise, the masses are not like them.
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I personally think Beyonce's a strong feminist. What she's done in music and for women is unprecedented. I love her. She definitely makes me feel like more of a woman.
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At school, I was a tomboy, and it would be me and all my guy friends.
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Sometimes I hope that through osmosis I might get a workout - just by wearing the clothes.
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It's still going on. I guess it will be until Redmond quits, dies or is jailed.
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You need to make a trip to Des Moines in August, because the Iowa State Fair really is a sight to see. The Iowa Fairgrounds are usually packed for those 11 days, and you get a real sense of what a classic Midwest fair is all about.
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With the work that I do as a director, I've got dialogue, camera movement, and character blocking to help create a tone to the piece. In photography, those elements are somewhat void so that tone becomes a bit more subtle but still equally important.
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The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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An interview has become such a confrontational thing. It makes you very defensive.
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The question for immigration reform is not if we'll get it done, it's when we'll get it done. It's going to get done.
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So, from a very young age, my mom tells me that I wanted to be Michael J. Fox. I didn't want to be an actor. I just wanted to be Michael J. Fox for awhile. And then, I realized that he was an actor, so I pursued that.
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At school I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking. But the girls on TV looked similar to me. I would say to my mum, 'The girls at school are teasing me, but I look like those girls on TV.'
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I've done movies I'm very proud of, but there's always a sense of: 'Come see this shiny new car!' The question I hate the most is: 'Why should people see it?'
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Like most struggling writers trying to get their scripts commissioned, I had to do something odd to pay the rent. So, aged 21, I started up my own small cheesecake company in Philadelphia.
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In graduate school, I was a student of E.L. Doctorow, and he had us read 'Moby-Dick' in a week.
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The next thing which surprised us very much, is that both for Julia sets and even more so for the Mandelbrot set, the complication was not, how to say, arbitrary, and almost everybody found the impression that these shapes were hauntingly beautiful. These shapes resulted from the most ridiculous transformation, z
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Modeling is the world that I feel most welcome in.
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Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.
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But Pride always means enmity -- it is enmity. And not only enmity between man and man, but enmity to God.
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At home I've got a very puerile, juvenile sense of humour.
