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Should they be thanked or does thanks drive them away?
"You honor us," she stammered. "We request your help. — Cecilia Dart-Thornton

Not-Dave G. gave Praline a long stare, the kind of stare that telegraphed not just lust, but three or four possible sex acts. — Marshall Thornton

What is essential does not die but clarifies. — Thornton Wilder

Playing normal-looking characters really intimidatesme. I got into acting to play anyone but me. — Billy Bob Thornton

It's amazing how many people think a conversation is little more than reading their resume aloud. — Marshall Thornton

I don't remember what I was saying, but I remember thinking I was incredibly smart and wishing I could always speak that clearly and cleverly. — Marshall Thornton

The past and the future are always present within us. — Thornton Wilder

You're never going to get from the industry what you give to it. But it's worth it; you just have to be realistic. — Tiffany Thornton

Change has to be hard because you're fighting against inertia. — James Thornton

I never wanted to write a book, and people have asked me for years to do it. — Billy Bob Thornton

Leadership responsibility is multidimensional and cannot be described in one or two words. It is personal, interpersonal, environmental and societal. — Linda Fisher Thornton

I have never loved any woman before. Now I love, and will love. — John Thornton

An idle genius is an oxymoron. — James Thornton

It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is rather a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves. — Thornton Wilder

Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder. — Thornton Wilder

I think that it can be assumed that no adults are ever really 'shocked' - that being shocked is always a pose. — Thornton Wilder

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures. — Thornton Wilder

I got in drama class in high school and I only got in there because there were girls and I thought maybe I could make a grade above a C in something. — Billy Bob Thornton

I come from a place where you don't need to talk all the time. There are sign languages you learn. — Warwick Thornton

faithful, resolute, alive, You and the Two Lands that has no enemies; This life is no more than a dream, so seize the day before it passes! — Stephanie Thornton

You can get famous for doing something stupid and empty, but you do something stupid and empty and you're already famous, you lose your career. — Billy Bob Thornton

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Getting the nomination is like gravy. Winning would be like whatever is better than gravy. — Billy Bob Thornton

You can't move forward looking backwards. — Delores Thornton

There is no drunkenness equal to that of remembering whispered words in the night. — Thornton Wilder

Marketing is the devil. — Billy Bob Thornton

Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home. — Thornton Wilder

My disappointment was comfortable, like a blanket. — Marshall Thornton

My heart beat fast, and I had a little trouble breathing. It felt like lust, but then again it might have been fear. — Marshall Thornton

An American is insubmissive, lonely, self-educated, and polite. — Thornton Wilder

I not only bow to the inevitable; I am fortified by it. — Thornton Wilder

Objective leaders identify their unproductive mental models and tweak them for greater effectiveness. — Elizabeth Thornton

My mom is such a big supporter of mine. She still is, and always was. So I got the sort of encouragement from that side of the family. — Billy Bob Thornton

The unencumbered stage encourages the truth operative in everyone. The less seen, the more heard. The eye is the enemy of the ear in real drama. — Thornton Wilder

I never expected to be a movie star. It's not that I didn't want to be, I didn't think about it. I wanted to be an actor. — Billy Bob Thornton

She had seen what it cost him and her heart quickened with compassion. For that alone, she might have loved him almost. — Cecilia Dart-Thornton

I fell in love. Why can't I fall out of it?" He got a look on his face, which I knew meant he was making a mental note of that line too. — Marshall Thornton

How's your love life?" I asked.
"What love life? You keep ruining it."
That was the answer I was hoping for. I even hoped it was true. — Marshall Thornton

The future is the most expensive luxury in the world. — Thornton Wilder

I hold we cannot be said to be aware of our minds save under responsibility. — Thornton Wilder

When you're at war, you think about a better life; when you're at peace you think about a more comfortable one. — Thornton Wilder

I'm an atheist, but I believe in art. I go to galleries like my mother went to church. It helps me understand the way I live. — Sarah Thornton

I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for. — Thornton Wilder

The stuff of which masterpieces are made drifts about the world waiting to be clothed in words. — Thornton Wilder

I probably needed to say something, some spiritual version of "Get the fuck out."
And I had no idea what that might be. — Marshall Thornton

I am in fact more than a dress. — Justine Thornton

Hanson looked at me like I'd just claimed I could make a nuclear bomb out of laundry detergent, string, and a can of baked beans. — Marshall Thornton

Faith is a never-ending pool of clarity, reaching far beyond the margins of consciousness. We all know more than we know we know. — Thornton Wilder

Usually when you're playing a character, you think a lot about their backstory. — Billy Bob Thornton

I just don't like getting scared, like when people hide and jump out of places. That totally freaks me out. I'm not a fan of it. — Tiffany Thornton

In the early summer of 1902 John Barrington — Thornton Wilder

Imprisonment of the body is bitter; imprisonment of the mind is worse — Thornton Wilder

The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children. — Thornton Wilder

I'm as highly insecure as a human can be. — Billy Bob Thornton

Their hatred is so passionate that I can't help but wonder if they're attracted to each other. — Sarah Thornton

Pacifism is the transitory luxury of a people whose security has been earned by the bravery and militarism of earlier generations. — Bruce Thornton

People over 40 stay home and watch television, that's why there are no movies out there. — Billy Bob Thornton

They seemed to share the kindliness and largeness of John Thornton. — Jack London

If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent. — Thornton Wilder

Getting fucked really isn't my thing."
"Well, thank you for faking it. You're a good actor. — Marshall Thornton

The best part of married life is the fights. The rest is merely so-so. — Thornton Wilder

My dad didn't hug me every day and say he loved me and anything like that. — Billy Bob Thornton

Your perspective guides your thoughts, your choices, your trajectory. — James Thornton

I've been largely an improvisational actor for most of my career. — Billy Bob Thornton

I'm not much of a drinker, so I'm going to eat seven pounds of pork. — Billy Bob Thornton

I may not be six four but I can certainly act six four. — Marshall Thornton

What's in a name? Sometimes a lot of real work. — Thornton W. Burgess

Characterization in a play is like a blank check which the dramatist accords to the actor for him to fill in. — Thornton Wilder

It's depressing to be so depressed. — Marshall Thornton

I don't have a fear of flying; I have a fear of crashing. — Billy Bob Thornton

The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude. — Thornton Wilder

Nay, it ain't got fleas, and 'tis a girl. — Cecilia Dart-Thornton

My grief had become a thick scab; I picked at it from time to time, but mostly I left it alone. I didn't want to know what was underneath. — Marshall Thornton

I believe in running through the rain and crashing into the person you love and having your lips bleed on each other. — Billy Bob Thornton

Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion. — Thornton Wilder

Sometimes the truth was like a band-aid in need to removal. — Marshall Thornton

The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliffs. — Thornton Wilder

Government can screw up just about everything. Given enough power and time it will screw up everything. — Mark Thornton

Every person who has ever lived has lived an unbroken succession of unique occasions. — Thornton Wilder

All the actors I've worked with as a director over the years I really love and I thought they were all right for the part. — Billy Bob Thornton

I actually am a phobic twitchy sort of nervous guy. — Billy Bob Thornton

Speechless, castaway and wry
a spellbound oddity am I
my feet are locked upon the clay
my gaze is locked upon the sky — Cecilia Dart-Thornton

It's not that I don't understand it. But people think if you speak with an English accent it somehow makes you smarter. — Billy Bob Thornton

He shook hands with Margaret. He knew it was the first time their hands had met, though she was perfectly unconscious of the fact. — Elizabeth Gaskell

I told you there was no such thing as immortality, not even for dragons. — Stanley S. Thornton

Throughout the hours of the night, though there had been few to hear it, the whole sky had been loud with the singing of these constellations. — Thornton Wilder

Money is like manure; it's not worth a thing unless it's spread around encouraging young things to grow. — Thornton Wilder

You want to know the hardest thing about being smart?
What?
I pretty much always know what's going to happen next; there's no suspense. — Billy Bob Thornton

You want to fuck me?" he asked.

"The thought crossed my mind," I replied honestly. — Marshall Thornton

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day. — Thornton Wilder

Dinosaur/Mammoth: "It's cold. — Thornton Wilder

It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness. — Thornton Wilder

I crossed my fingers. On both hands. Then my toes. I may have even crossed my eyes. — Marshall Thornton

The raven spread out its glossy wings and departed like hope. — Cecilia Dart-Thornton

Take your clothes off. Slowly," he told Carter.
So this is what romantic is, Carter thought. Kissing and watching each other strip. — Marshall Thornton

If you are animated by right principles, and are fully awakened to the true dignity of life, the subject of amusements may be left to settle itself. — Thornton T. Munger

Nice people always make me want to do bad things. — Marshall Thornton

I'm not really a full-time director, I just like to direct the things that I write because I think I'm going to know it better than someone else. — Billy Bob Thornton

Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous. — Thornton Wilder

Will you be my slave?"
"No,"Praline said.
"But thank you for offering. — Marshall Thornton