Mark Thomas Quotes

Maybe... there is a perfectly reasonable explanation for unlawfully detaining 120 people. Maybe they just got carried away with last year's idea of pre-emptive strikes and thought, 'Let's not wait for an actual crime to occur. Let's get the innocent.

Mark Thomas

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PeopleWaitThoughtYearInnocent

There are a lot of actors out there who don't have an arena to present their stuff.

Joe Penny

PresentOutWhoStuffLotArena

I have trouble with things like Facebook. It presents such a warped vision. I get sick of people's opinions about every little thing and this warped view that everyone is as happy as a pig in garbage.

John Grant

VisionHappyPeopleSickViewPig

War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.

John F. Kennedy

TodayDayWarReputationWarrior

If the main character's not in jeopardy - physical, psychological, emotional, whatever - then you don't have any tension, and you don't have a story.

Stephen Graham Jones

CharacterStoryYouEmotionalMain

Abstraction is a mental process we use when trying to discern what is essential or relevant to a problem; it does not require a belief in abstract entities.

Tom G. Palmer

ProcessProblemTryingBeliefMental

The majority of information I gave police was about my wife and her family, which is what they wanted.

Robert Blake

FamilyPoliceWifeInformationHer

A film's success or failure is strictly on the director's shoulders.

Robin Tunney

SuccessFailureDirectorShoulders

I love making fiction films as well as nonfiction ones, and hope to keep challenging myself to make better and better work.

Lucy Walker

WorkLoveHopeMyselfBetterWell

I was definitely the kid who was the chicken, who didn't want to say the cuss words.

Jon Watts

WordsSayWantChickenKidWho

For me, books have always been a way to feel less alone while being alone. Perhaps if I was depressed and isolated, just communicating with these authors through their sentences helped me.

Jonathan Ames

AloneBeing AloneMeFeelWayBeen

They are imbeciles who call my work abstract. That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the exterior but the idea, the essence of things.

Constantin Brancusi

WorkRealRealisticAbstractThings

Stupidity is infinitely more fascinating that intelligence. Intelligence has its limits while stupidity has none.

Claude Chabrol

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