Paul Thomas Anderson Quotes

There's a lot for screenwriters to steal from songwriters, in terms of getting to the point.

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• A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.

  

  Abba Eban
  • Movement
  • Elegance
  • Posture

• I don't get recognised that much in the street.

  

  Jack Davenport
  • Get
  • Street
  • Recognised

• You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Done
  • Earth

• And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.

  

  Samuel Daniel
  • World
  • Few
  • Ear

• Chaotic people often have chaotic lives, and I think they create that. But if you try and have an inner peace and a positive attitude, I think you attract that.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • People
  • Peace
  • Positive

• I'm most excited about all of the non-currency uses of the block chain's ledger-ordering ability. I have no idea which ones will turn out to be successful, but I'm glad all of that experimenting is happening.

  

  Gavin Andresen
  • Idea
  • Successful
  • Ability

• If I manage to get seven hours' sleep, I'm a pretty good parent.

  

  Ed Stoppard
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Sleep

• IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Life
  • Think
  • Modern

• You gotta give everybody a new trend a new wave, something new to do.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • You
  • New
  • Wave

• Let me make this clear: it is our duty to adopt a policy barring the wearing of niqabs in these public buildings.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Me
  • Policy
  • Buildings

• I have this dream that the first responders to 911 calls will not be law enforcement personnel but robots. Robots can put eyes and ears on the scene much faster than you can with policemen or women.

  

  Vijay Kumar
  • Women
  • Dream
  • Law

• People just can't wrap their heads around two young black women in a major production.

  

  Laura Harrier
  • People
  • Women
  • Black

• We can code wills, escrows, trusts, notaries, revokable charge backs, proof of contracts, intellectual property enforcement. What Wall Street does can be done in code by Bitcoin.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • Done
  • Wall
  • Intellectual

• When Barack Obama was elected, it immediately brought out all the differences in society.

  

  Wadada Leo Smith
  • Society
  • Differences
  • Out

• The only way that you can ever continue to have a career and have success and have hits is if you are honest to yourself in the same way that you were in the beginning.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Career
  • Success
  • Beginning

• We must not allow the Iranian regime to use the nation's vast energy resource as a financial pipeline for its nuclear ambitions.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Energy
  • Financial
  • Nation

• Adult actors are really childish, and that's nice to be around when you're a kid. So the big reason I wanted to be an actor was I really enjoyed actors' company - which probably makes me about as shallow as a puddle. But it could be worse. I could be working for a living.

  

  Jack Davenport
  • Me
  • Nice
  • Company

• I'm trying to cut down a little on eating, on sodium, keep my blood pressure down, which is tough. Because I love food! I do, but it's unfair how everything that's bad for you tastes so good, and all the good stuff, veggies and green things, doesn't match up.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Up
  • Good
  • Trying

• I'm not really interested in politics, because I think it's just too removed from my own life. If there's a war, though, or a disaster, I want to know what's happening.

  

  Zhang Ziyi
  • Life
  • War
  • Politics

• I was born in a territory called Biran, in the eastern region of Cuba. It's known by that name, although it has never appeared on a map.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Never
  • Name
  • Cuba

• The desire to conquer is itself a sort of subjection.

  

  George Eliot
  • Desire
  • Conquer
  • Subjection

• At the school I attended, the clergyman who ran the cathedral school in Shanghai would give lines to the boys as a punishment. They expected you to copy out, say, 20 or 30 pages from one of the school texts. But I found that rather than laboriously copying out something from a novel by Charles Dickens, it was easier if I made it up myself.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Up
  • School
  • Myself

• All great achievements require time.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Time
  • Great

• There's a lot for screenwriters to steal from songwriters, in terms of getting to the point.

  

  Paul Thomas Anderson