Paul Thomas Anderson Quotes

I'm not really a Sundance baby, but they helped me so much I feel I have to acknowledge it.

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• Whenever I go to a new city, whether visiting or vacationing, I would always make that a point to get to the record store early on, just to get my bearings and see what was going on around town.

  

  Gary Calamar
  • City
  • Always
  • Early

• I tested for a couple of pilots, but they said I was too tall.

  

  Adam Baldwin
  • Couple
  • Said
  • Pilots

• Disrespect toward Jesus, as we have seen all too often in our society, is very offensive to Muslims.

  

  Ibrahim Hooper
  • Society
  • Jesus
  • Disrespect

• My wife, Caroline Spector, and I pitched some comic ideas to various publishers back in the '80s, but nothing ever came of it.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Wife
  • Ideas
  • Nothing

• To me, 'Unforgiven' is one of the best films ever made. Aside from the fact it takes the genre and kicks it between its legs, it's this fascinating deconstruction of the myth of the West.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Me
  • Best
  • Fact

• While cheap products are exported to western countries, the waste is dumped mostly in China's back yard, contaminating its air, water, soil and seas.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Water
  • Air
  • China

• And the basis on which we agreed to operate with them involved a manifesto, where it states that we proceed from different ideologies and policies. One thing that we insisted on was that they should take an oath to reject racism and discrimination.

  

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi
  • Different
  • Racism
  • Discrimination

• But if kids take up things like hockey and football they will go back to it.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Football

• Something often neglected in popular accounts of the Wild West is the extent to which its dramas were colored by the politics and personal resentments left by the Civil War.

  

  Gary Krist
  • War
  • Politics
  • Popular

• You try to live the experience but keep your feet on the ground, not let it go to your head, because that's when you start making mistakes.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Live
  • Experience
  • Start

• I didn't want people to think I'm just in the movies, where you make money and wait around for 13 hours before you get to do 20 minutes of work.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • People
  • Work
  • Money

• It was great to be the rock comic, the shock comic. But after you've played Giants Stadium with Bon Jovi in front of 82,000 people, after you've done the 'Wild Thing' video with Jessica Hahn and every rock band from hell, you're not gonna top that.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • People
  • Great
  • Done

• In Australia, there is a very famous show called 'Home and Away.' I was cast on that at 15. The day I started filming, my life changed.

  

  Tammin Sursok
  • Life
  • Home
  • Day

• I always like to look at things and think, 'Would I be proud to bring my grandma and grandpa to come see me in this?' And if I wouldn't want them to see it, then it's not something that I should immortalize myself on film in.

  

  Rachel Skarsten
  • Want
  • Film
  • Grandma

• When I'm working, I'm so narrowly focused on sound, language, rhythm, flow, that I rarely feel the emotion of the text. It's only after - long after - I've finished a piece that I can experience in any way its emotional charge.

  

  Taiye Selasi
  • Long
  • Experience
  • Language

• When I edit, I'm not from the school of Hello, I'm a genius, so everybody shut up. I'm from the school of Let's play it once in front of an audience, and then I'll tell you where it is going.

  

  Garry Marshall
  • Up
  • School
  • Play

• Most accountants are strange - let's be honest.

  

  Hannah Gadsby
  • Honest
  • Strange
  • Most

• It's always great playing with other musicians. It's also a great situation where I'm the older guy, I've influenced generations of guitar players.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Great
  • Guy
  • Guitar

• All the drinking and all the other junk that I was stuck in... It was so predictable. So boring. I wake up the next day - somewhere, in some bed, I don't know who this person is next to me... and I'm drunk, competely hung over and have a show to do. The result is the same... When life now is pretty... exciting. You don't know what's gonna happen.

  

  James Hetfield Metallica
  • Life
  • Up
  • Pretty

• If a proposition cannot be falsified, it is not scientific.

  

  Edward Humes
  • Scientific
  • Proposition

• Before, I guess, mum and dad were everything, but now, in my case, I had two new girls and all of a sudden they're completely dependent on you and there's a third generation. It's a funny shift all of a sudden. You have the babies, you have yourself and then you have your parents.

  

  Roger Federer
  • Baby
  • Parent
  • Generation

• One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Suffering

• Our rate moves will have an impact on the economy in 2013. Whether we raise or lower rates depends on how the economic situation develops.

  

  Marek Belka

• I'm not really a Sundance baby, but they helped me so much I feel I have to acknowledge it.

  

  Paul Thomas Anderson
  • Baby