Ashley Thomas Quotes

Acting was always my passion, even before music, so I knew I was always heading down that path.

Ashley Thomas

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The question of the composition of perceptible objects is one which already occupied the mind of the ancient Greeks.

Johannes Stark

MindQuestionAncientComposition

Seeing various aspects of the secret state and surveillance state echoes a long tradition in art of looking at the sublime.

Trevor Paglen

ArtLookingTraditionLongSeeing

When I was a kid, I was hugely impacted by 'Jurassic Park.' I think I was just the right age when that movie came out, and I remember running around my town like a Velociraptor.

Rob McClure

AgeThinkRememberRightKidPark

When I was a kid growing up, there might be 10 shows on the air that had been on for ten seasons or eleven seasons. 'Gunsmoke' ran for over twenty years.

Rocky Carroll

Growing UpSeasonsGrowingKidOver

After I had written more than a dozen adult genre novels, an editor I knew in New York asked me to write a mystery for young adults.

Rodman Philbrick

New YorkMeMysteryNewYoungWrite

If you spend a whole afternoon just eating popcorn and watching football, there's absolutely nothing wrong with that. But if that's all you do, you get swept along with the tide, without any idea of where you're going.

Roland Joffe

FootballEatingYouTideWrong

President Trump sees the world in transactional and zero-sum terms - if something is good for China, it must be bad for the U.S. By contrast, economists see the world in much more nuanced ways: if globalization is well-managed, it can be a positive-sum game, where both the U.S. and China gain; if it is badly managed, it can be negative-sum.

Joseph Stiglitz

GoodWorldGameGlobalizationBad

Rappers aren't the really rich ones. We all have nice houses with studios and cars, but you need a piece of someone's business to be super wealthy.

Drake

BusinessRichSomeoneYouNiceNeed

Even when I had a run of successful prime-time shows, I couldn't sit down and enjoy my success. I would beat myself up and scrutinise everything. I'm a natural-born worrier.

Bobby Davro

SuccessMyselfEnjoyDownRunBeat

You're as good as the people you're with.

Brian Michael Bendis

GoodPeopleYou

Maybe I should say that memory interests me a great deal, because I think we all tell stories of our lives to ourselves as well as to other people. Well, women do, anyway. Women do this a lot. And I think when men get older, they do this too, but maybe in slightly different terms.

Alice Munro

WomenGreatMenMemoryPeopleMe

Jesus is not the 'founder of Christianity.'

William P. Young

FounderChristianityJesus

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