Paul Thomas Anderson Quotes
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I feel nowadays a lot of bands can be too overly produced. There's something about the leather pants and bare bodies and Axl Rose running back and forth on a stage and going crazy. I love all that.
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If I did everything, I probably wouldn't be here talking to you. There aren't too many people who can actually double me, so I do most of my stunts though.
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One who doesn't throw the dice can never expect to score a six.
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I consider myself West African, among other cultural identities, and a writer, among other creative ones.
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When I think of a story, somehow it just always seems to come out involving spooks and spies and government skullduggery.
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You never walk out of the gym and say, 'I shouldn't have gone.'
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Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.
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If I don't die in a plane crash or something, this country has a rare opportunity to watch a great talent grow.
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My advice to young wrestlers is that your surroundings really make a difference. You want to put yourself in good, positive surroundings.
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I thought they know that I was the Commander in Chief, not that I know that I am the Commander in Chief, and they should behave; know how to behave to the Commander in Chief.
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I knew from an early age exactly what I wanted to do. I wanted to be a musician and that was it. It made life a lot easier knowing what I was aiming for.
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You're either humble or you're not. If you were a jerk before the fame, you just become a jerk with a bigger spotlight. Whoever you are really comes through.
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Maybe you have to know darkness before you can appreciate the light.
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A pinch of notoriety will do.
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Now get off my dick, dick's too short of a word for my dick, get off my antidisestablishmentarianism you prick.
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Adorn thyself with simplicity and with indifference towards the things which lie between virtue and vice. Love mankind. Follow God. The poet says that Law rules all. And it is enough to remember that law rules all.
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I'm going to fire everybody - that’s how. You're either going to stop leaking, or you're going to get fired. If I've got to get the thing down to me and Sarah Huckabee, then the leaking will stop.
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World-view is a product of life-view, not vice versa.
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Rather than standing back and being left behind, we must make the most of the opportunities that a growing China presents to us here in Britain.
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The eagle suffers little birds to sing, And is not careful what they mean thereby, Knowing that with the shadow of his wings He can at pleasure stint their melody: Even so mayest thou the giddy men of Rome.
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All I ever wanted to do was be able to pay my rent.
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We travel so much as touring musicians and artists that sometimes, when you hear a great song that you really think could be on your project, you go ahead and record it instead of try to write it.
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Actually, guest star roles are really hard. Since you have to walk into a show where the cast has been working together for a long period of time, it can be a real challenge. And you have to feel your way around that while still making an impact on the overall effect of the show.
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Of course, I'm no dummy.
