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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You've got to have something in your life you don't sell to others.
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I usually spend the hiatus of 'Dexter' in New York in a way to balance things.
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There are directors you never, ever want to get close to. Lubitsch was one. Outside of the work, I don't think I ever said five words to him. Mamet was pretty much the same thing. His mind is working all the time.
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Individual participation in the stock market through 401(k)s helped fuel the go-go days of Wall Street in the 1980s and birthed asset management juggernauts like Fidelity, Vanguard, Pimco, BlackRock, and dozens of others.
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Of course, I'm no dummy.
