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I think there are certain technical things about acting that change between working in film and television. Everything definitely slows down and we have more time in film.


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THOMAS JEFFERSON The firmness with which the people have withstood the late abuses of the press, the discernment they...
THOMAS JEFFERSON At the establishment of our constitutions, the judiciary bodies were supposed to be the most helples...
THOMAS JEFFERSON The germ of dissolution of our federal government is in the constitution of the federal judiciary; a...
THOMAS JEFFERSON What a wonderful phenomenon it is, carefully considered, when the human eye, that jewel of organic s...
THOMAS MANN The more the diamond is cut the brighter it sparkles; and in what seems hard dealing, there God has ...
THOMAS GUTHRIE Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supportin...
THOMAS PAINE And as to you, Sir, treacherous in private friendship and a hypocrite in public life, the world will...
THOMAS PAINE The right of voting for representatives is the primary right by which other rights are protected. To...
THOMAS PAINE It is easy enough to tell the poor to accept their poverty as Gods will when you yourself have warm ...
THOMAS MERTON Beauty is but a flower,
Which wrinkles will devour;
Brightness falls from the air;
Queens h...
THOMAS NASH The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.
THOMAS MANN