Paul Thomas Anderson Quotes

I write from my stomach.

Paul Thomas Anderson

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• Using phrases or mantras to encourage and comfort myself has been a powerful practice for me. For years, I would say to myself 'Remember the purple sky' when I was feeling anxious, which to me meant remember a sense of internal spaciousness and kindness toward myself.

  

  Maggie Rowe
  • Remember
  • Feeling
  • Myself

• And it's sort of an old-fashioned ER, in that it's very much about the medicine, and how these people cope. There's very little about the personal lives of the characters.

  

  Laura Innes
  • People
  • Medicine
  • Personal

• If I tried to flirt with a woman and she didn't know who I was, she would run away.

  

  Larry David
  • She
  • Know
  • Woman

• The subculture of felons is in great vogue among adolescents. Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, and so forth allow us Republicans to say to America's young people, 'We be thugs.' The GOP may capture the youth vote at last.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Great
  • May

• We can't go all over the world killing people because we disagree with them.

  

  Eddie Bernice Johnson
  • People
  • World
  • Over

• People prefer doing films. That is not the case with me. I don't do theatre because I have to but because it makes me feel alive. I enjoy the whole process of rehearsing, though repetition can make it tedious.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • People
  • Enjoy
  • Theatre

• My views line up with Mick Mulvaney's views pretty much exactly.

  

  Ralph Norman
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Line

• I'm very grateful to have had many brilliant students and post-docs who have worked with me. Potential is often hard to spot, but a key factor is whether they express a genuine interest in the problem and how they have thought about it.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Thought
  • Grateful
  • Potential

• I tour whether I have album out or not. I tour more than any other hip-hop artist.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Artist
  • More
  • Hip Hop

• Rag paper, containing hemp fiber, is the highest quality and longest lasting paper ever made. It can be torn when wet, but returns to its full strength when dry.

  

  Jack Herer
  • Quality
  • Strength
  • Paper

• I have literally played the most interesting parts since I turned 40.

  

  Kate Burton
  • Interesting
  • Most
  • Parts

• Our music's got flavor; it's got skill. And we present it really well.

  

  Yolandi Visser
  • Music
  • Present
  • Skill

• A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Action
  • Purpose
  • Reference

• Again, one of the problems I have with television, as I mentioned before, is it's trivial in many ways, and I think that a lot of folks out there are looking for new metaphors and new ways of thinking about things.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Thinking
  • Think
  • Problems

• No other terms than unconditional and immediate surrender. I propose to move immediately upon your works.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Works
  • Move
  • Surrender

• The big difference with Juliette and the others in that film is that she goes beyond acting.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Acting
  • Difference
  • Juliette

• You may not be able to change the course of government, but you can achieve some peace. And books were the path to that. I grew up in a house where books were everywhere.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Up
  • May
  • House

• Another nice thing was that I would type out letters home for the admiral's stewards. They would then feed me the same food the admiral ate.

  

  Jack Adams
  • Home
  • Food
  • Nice

• You're always one of the only girls, because there are so many male writers, and there are not enough good parts for women.

  

  Vanessa Kirby
  • Good
  • Women

• Now why should the cinema follow the forms of theater and painting rather than the methodology of language, which allows wholly new concepts of ideas to arise from the combination of two concrete denotations of two concrete objects?

  

  Sergei Eisenstein
  • Language
  • Painting
  • Cinema

• Celebrities become divas because they get pampered so much, babied so much - then they get used to it.

  

  Adrian Grenier

• No duty, however, binds us to these so-called laws, whose corrupting influence menaces what is noblest in our being.

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • Influence
  • Duty
  • Menaces

• One possessed a thousand and three women (in Spain alone), the other only one. But it is multiplicity that is impoverished, whilethe entire world is concentrated in a single being infinitely possessed. Tristan no longer needs the world--because he loves! While Don Juan, always loved, cannot love in return. Hence his anguish and his frenzied course.

  

  Denis de Rougemont
  • Women
  • Loved
  • Course

• I write from my stomach.

  

  Paul Thomas Anderson