Jack Thorne Quotes

At my school, when kids went into the army at 16, they didn't do it in a gung-ho, Tom Cruise, 'Born on the Fourth of July' way. They were generally - and I hope this doesn't offend them - the more vulnerable members of the class. They enlisted seeking family, and they didn't always find it.

Jack Thorne

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By giving students the proper tools to analyze the media they consume, we can empower them to make informed decisions.

Jimmy Gomez

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My mum has never wanted me to have children. She thinks I would be destroying my life, even now.

Tracey Emin

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There's a different kind of attitude when you come from Western New York. You work for everything you get, and nothing's really handed to you... You realize good work turns to good things, and that's the edge I always came up with.

Luke Harper

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The tillage of the soil occupies the vast majority of those who work for their own bread.

Joseph Barber Lightfoot

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I learn a lot from every director that I work with. I sit on set and watch them, every one.

Jonah Hill

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I really connect with every character that I've played, just because I kinda have to; as an actor, you want to take them in and get to know them and like them; because they're evil, you kinda have to like them so that you can understand them and play them and play them with some kind of empathy.

Doug Jones

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I think they say that when you're breast feeding, you know, your weight kind of slims down. It's a little easier. It's like a workout within itself. It's very tiring actually and you find yourself snacking more often.

Christina Aguilera

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I play piano and drums very poorly and French horn and tuba all equally as bad.

Wynton Marsalis

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Above and beyond the question of how to grow the economy there is a legitimate concern about how to grow the quality of our lives.

Paul Wellstone

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With writing, you really have to have faith. You have to have some sort of confidence that if you keep at it, you will get where you need to go, because there are so many points where a rational person would quit.

Scott Spencer

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If a star football player can have a mythical girlfriend, why can't I have a mythical Congress?

Tina Brown

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Not one foot will I fly, so long as breath bides within my breast; for, by Him that shaped both sea and land, this day shall end my battles or my life. I will die King of England.

Richard III of England

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