Tom Hodgkinson Quotes

To me there is no more depressing sight than a five-year-old staring at a screen, unsmiling, mouse in hand. Besides whatever dreadful things this prolonged exposure to screens is doing to their brains, computer games tend to be solitary affairs, and produce little laughter.

Tom Hodgkinson

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Box office success has never meant anything. I couldn't get a film made if I paid for it myself. So I'm not 'box office' and never have been, and that's never entered into my kind of mind set.

Jessica Lange

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Several unions have agreed to larger employee contributions for their members. Taxpayers are living with cuts and making sacrifices to deal with the reality of California's budget crisis, state workers are going to have to do the same.

Jerry Brown

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I think relationships are really hard. Each one gives you lessons that you need.

Jennifer Grey

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I'm honestly not a great gift giver. I could give better - my girlfriends have always complained about that.

John Legend

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Waste brings woe, and sorrow hates despair.

Robert Greene

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Dog - a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship.

Ambrose Bierce

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Every film can be fun, even if it's a terror.

Steve Guttenberg

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Shakespeare wrote all there is that we need to know about dementia in 'King Lear.'

Simon Callow

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I think the way poems are taught to high school students is completely counterintuitive; it sets up this sense of being the poem's adversary. The poem is sort of sneakily trying to outsmart you.

Tracy K. Smith

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I like staying home at night and just watching TV and playing with my two puppies. I really do love the simple things.

Molly Sims

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I couldn't be 'Johnny' in front of a camera in acting jobs and behind the camera I like to be 'Michael.' With directing, you can't do it by halves. There's a lot of reflection, and I have found that I, as 'Michael,' thrive on it. It's lovely coming home and feeling that stuff from a day's work as myself.

Johnny Vegas

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I think I probably got a lot of my father's natural security or ego or whatever. I can be my own person and not have to live under his shadow. I definitely look up to him in many ways - I'd like to be more like him when it comes to business - but I think I'm such a different person, it's hard to even compare us.

Donald Trump, Jr.

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