Paul Thomas Anderson Quotes

You know, I'm really not that competent at describing things musically.

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• The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs.

  

  Malcolm de Chazal
  • Smile
  • Flower
  • Smiles

• India and Japan should develop a complementary relationship in information technology.

  

  Yoshiro Mori
  • Relationship
  • Technology

• I'm against abortion. On the other hand, I believe in a woman's choice.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Believe
  • Hand
  • Woman

• The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • Life
  • Together
  • Peace

• I never read about photography.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Never
  • Photography
  • Read

• The passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 represented precisely such a hope - that America had learned from its past and acted to secure a better tomorrow.

  

  Aberjhani
  • America
  • Hope
  • Past

• I'm not a writer where I feel particularly blessed by great inspiration every day. I don't. I have to work really hard at it to try and say the things I'm concerned with.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Work
  • Inspiration
  • Blessed

• I believe the most important thing for the media is to be objective, fair, and balanced. We should not report a story with preconceptions or prejudice.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Believe
  • Important
  • Media

• It occurred to me that a food drive would be a natural way to talk to kids about hunger, which so many of them simply aren't aware of.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Kids
  • Way
  • Food

• I grew up in Oregon, and then I lived in San Francisco and New York.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Up
  • New
  • New York

• All men are stuck in a kind of fog. They're surrounded by a wall of fog. They think this is perfectly normal, but it's not. It means that since they can't see much beyond their own little situation, they tend to vegetate. They need some immediate stimulus to keep them alert.

  

  Colin Wilson
  • Men
  • Wall

• Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Time
  • True
  • Past

• When you talk about yourself for 35 years, first of all, it gets repetitious. And then it seems a little bit excessive, at the least.

  

  Lily Tomlin

• Everything that feminism stands for is everything American, white, red and blue democratic. It is all the same stuff. So, I am boggled that I should have to give up this term that encapsulates what I want for my children, for my world, culture, brothers and sister because someone else thinks it means I don't shave my armpits.

  

  Kelly Sue DeConnick
  • Up
  • World
  • Children

• I'm from a small town, and I thought I would be a lawyer.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • Small
  • Lawyer

• The maddening thing is as actors of either sex, we get better as we get older, and so when you are 65, you think, 'I could play Juliet now. I understand it.'

  

  Joanna Lumley
  • Sex

• Songwriting is like a therapy, it's a connection that you have with another person, and I'm not scared of it at all for some reason.

  

  Colbie Caillat
  • Connection

• When you're dancing, you're dancing for people to see.

  

  Pharrell Williams N.E.R.D.
  • People

• Think about it. For the sake of fame, men will risk great dangers. They put themselves in the jaws of death more than for their children. For fame, they will spend their money like water and work their fingers to the bone. Have you not observed this in your own home?

  

  Karen Essex
  • Thinking
  • Children
  • Home

• If I walk in the street in Korea, I am recognized.

  

  Kim Yuna

• I've always been a huge fan of the 'Pirates of the Caribbean' movies.

  

  Abigail Breslin
  • Always
  • Movies
  • Caribbean

• In a situation where you don't think any of your roommates are home and you locked the door before you left, the first thing you should do before even putting the key in the door is turn the knob, ... If it turns, you should already be thinking that something might be wrong.

  

  Arthur Mitchell
  • Door
  • Wrong
  • Key

• A man goes through many changes in 2000 meters. Some are not very pretty. Some make you hate yourself. Some make you wonder if you've been rowing for only three or four days. To avoid that fate, we prepared for all possibilities. If a meteor landed 10 feet off our stern, we would not blink. We Would be aware, yet impassive, to the outside world. Every ounce of energy would be funneled into the water, and not wasted by looking around, worrying about opponents, wondering about things that didn't concern our primary goal-to be the first across the finish line.

  

  Brad Alan Lewis
  • Wonder
  • Changes
  • Possibilities

• You know, I'm really not that competent at describing things musically.

  

  Paul Thomas Anderson