#tin

When I started writing, I did have some idealised notion of my dad as a writer. But I have less and less of a literary rivalry with him as I've gone on. I certainly don't feel I need his approval, although maybe that's because I'm confident that I've got it. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#approval #because #certainly #confident #dad

Dad bought me a toy drum one Christmas, and I eventually destroyed it. I wanted a real drum and he bought me a snare drum. Dad continued to buy me one drum after the other. ↗

— Keith Thibodeaux

#bought #buy #christmas #continued #dad

My parents had a pub and each Sunday there was an accordionist. They have told me that when I was in my cradle, I already was imitating the gestures of the musician. ↗

— Toots Thielemans

#cradle #each #gestures #had #i

Oh, I love making independent films, it's such a special, magical thing because you collaborate with a small group of people and everyone's pitching in. You'll see producers setting up the lunch table and the sound guy driving a van. We're all really there because we want to be. ↗

— Olivia Thirlby

#collaborate #driving #everyone #films #group

Acting is something that I always wanted, but I never paid attention to the notion that it might actually work out. You have all sorts of ideas about what you want to do - at one stage, I wanted to be a jockey - but this is the one that's a big deal. ↗

— Olivia Thirlby

#acting #actually #always #attention #big

It is being alleged that the Federal Government is 'cutting' spending. In fact, we are not 'cutting' anything. Defense spending under this budget would rise by 4.3 percent over last year. Other discretionary spending would also rise. ↗

— Craig L. Thomas

#also #anything #being #budget #cutting

I didn't have an incredibly active social life as a teenager. I always wished it was a little bit more exciting than it was. ↗

— Olivia Thirlby

#always #bit #exciting #i #i always

My boyfriend and I just got a projector, so we've been screening movies on the roof and projecting them against the wall next door. The last one we did, the theme was, 'The Russians are coming.' So we screened 'Red Dawn' and 'Top Gun.' ↗

— Olivia Thirlby

#been #boyfriend #coming #dawn #did

It's about putting the pedal to the metal and not asking any questions at all and just going for it. ↗

— Brandon Thomas

#any #asking #going #just #metal

I'd grown up fearing the lynch mobs of the Ku Klux Klan; as an adult I was starting to wonder if I'd been afraid of the wrong white people all along - where I was being pursued not by bigots in white robes, but by left-wing zealots draped in flowing sanctimony. ↗

— Clarence Thomas

#afraid #along #been #being #bigots