Paul Thomas Anderson Quotes

The films that I love are very straightforward stories, like really old-fashioned stuff.

Paul Thomas Anderson

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• When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains, the great mountains and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, inner life in which freedom lives. In which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.

  

  Ralph Bellamy
  • Life
  • Great
  • Country

• Science fiction writers missed the most salient feature of our modern era: the Internet.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Science
  • Internet
  • Modern

• I'm not a religious person, and I'm not too interested in being a part of a religion, but I do like having some sort of communal gathering, and having some sense of peoples.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Like
  • Religious
  • Religion

• Being a humorist is not a voluntary thing. You can tell this because in a situation where saying a funny thing will cause a lot of trouble, a humorist will still say the funny thing. No matter how inappropriate.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Funny
  • Situation
  • Saying

• The 1910 Edison film of 'Frankenstein' was itself a dead thing revived by technology.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Technology
  • Film
  • Dead

• The Hoosier way is quite simple - we work hard, and we live within our means.

  

  Dan Coats
  • Work
  • Live
  • Simple

• The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Mind
  • Body
  • Test

• Philosophy as practice does not mean its restriction to utility or applicability, that is, to what serves morality or produces serenity of soul.

  

  Karl Jaspers
  • Soul
  • Practice
  • Philosophy

• Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. Whether it is or is not more efficacious I do not know.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Know
  • Medical
  • Baptism

• Because of my childhood where I was constantly by myself, I always feel lonely. I have a lot of people that I absolutely love and I know love me but I can't get rid of that feeling of loneliness no matter who I'm with - even with my children.

  

  Natalia Vodianova
  • People
  • Children
  • Love

• In Japan, I am famous in certain special circles - mainly as someone who is trying to break down and enlighten the conventions of Japanese art.

  

  Takashi Murakami
  • Art
  • Famous
  • Japan

• I grew up in a courtroom kind of like the one you saw in 'To Kill a Mockingbird' - big, big courtroom, sometimes it didn't even have air conditioning.

  

  Nancy Grace
  • Up
  • You
  • Kind

• The difference between burlesque and the newspapers is that the former never pretended to be performing a public service by exposure.

  

  I. F. Stone
  • Service
  • Public Service

• It's funny, in a way the actor is a writer. It's not like the two things are so separate as to be like apples and oranges. The writer and the actor are one.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Way
  • Funny
  • Actor

• My first modeling job in Paris, the photographer said, 'Tue es belle,' which means, 'you are pretty,' and I thought he said, 'Tu es poubelle,' which means, 'you are the trash can.' I burst into tears. He was not happy about that.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Job
  • Happy
  • Pretty

• Ethel was calm but she felt excited inside. Bernard has a big house said Mr S. gazing at Ethel he is inclined to be rich.

  

  Daisy Ashford
  • She
  • House
  • Calm

• I think I'm still clean living, you know?  That's something, when I-I don't go home and have orgies or anything like that.  I'm still the same person that I've always been.  So….

  

  Britney Spears
  • Home

• I never wanted children. If I'd been deeply in love with a man and he'd wanted children, it would have been difficult.

  

  Jeanette Winterson
  • Children

• I love taking on roles that I haven't yet done in my career.

  

  Alexa Vega
  • Done
  • Career

• So long as you 'have' yourself, have yourself as an object, your experience of man is only as of a thing among things.

  

  Martin Buber
  • Long
  • Experience

• God has to speak to each person in their own language, in their own idioms. Take Spanish, Chinese. You can express the same thought, but to different people you have to use a different language. Its the same in religion.

  

  Huston Smith
  • God
  • Religion
  • Language

• I don't want to call myself a perfectionist, because perfection is imperfection.

  

  Ne-Yo
  • Imperfection

• The films that I love are very straightforward stories, like really old-fashioned stuff.

  

  Paul Thomas Anderson