Paul Thomas Anderson Quotes
No matter how many times you do it, you don't get used to the sadness - for me at least - of coming to the end of a film.
Quotes to Explore
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It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are.
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Juilliard definitely emphasizes the theater. They don't train - at all really - for film acting. It's mostly process-oriented, pretty much for the stage.
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So many of the recipes that I come up with have a story. I'm a blogger. It flowed very naturally out of me, but I also knew this was a way to set my recipes apart. A, they are always using interesting ingredients but B, there is always a story behind it.
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I really like the collaboration of doing movies and television. But I like the sort of solitary work of doing music.
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Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
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And I had a lot to play, which is what you want as an actor.
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Our need for that exterior god that sits up there and judges us... will diminish and eventually disappear.
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I get strangely obsessed about the cleanliness of my house.
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I am just an actor, but there are these other people who are really selfless. I come from a long line of nurses in my family, and they really do a thankless job.
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Every day, I wake up and say, 'Good Morning, Jesus.'
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It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words, like 'What about lunch?'
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Trying to take the credit for Jamie Carragher and Steven Gerrard, who had been at the club since they were eight. Can you believe it? I can't.
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I'm not thirsty. I'm not a pop star. I don't want to reign over all forever... I don't want to be famous! It makes me feel sick, the thought of being a famous person. It's just not me.
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I don't use my body to seduce, no. I just stand there.
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If there's too much of you around, people can get tired of you.
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In the spring of 1929, I returned to the United States. I was homesick for this country. I had learned in my student days a great deal about the new physics. I wanted to pursue this myself, to explain it, and to foster its cultivation.
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Remember this: your body is your slave; it works for you.
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That is the Roman way: to give favors to the favorites.
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Toddlers need to get off the soccer field and onto the playground. Children need to get out of the gym and into neighborhood stickball games. We need to give kids room to create their own rules, set their own terms, and move their bodies in their own ways.
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To me, every hour of the light and dark is a miracle. Every cubic inch of space is a miracle.
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The tough thing about radio is I've met a lot of people in it who like my music. But it's hard for them to figure out how to play what they like when there's somebody up above them yelling 'you have to play this.'
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But there is much to be said for giving up ... grand ambitions and living the most ordinary life imaginable.
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No matter how many times you do it, you don't get used to the sadness - for me at least - of coming to the end of a film.
