Paul Thomas Anderson Quotes
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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.
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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.
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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.
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We can't go all over the world killing people because we disagree with them.
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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.
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My views line up with Mick Mulvaney's views pretty much exactly.
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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.
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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.
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I have literally played the most interesting parts since I turned 40.
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Our music's got flavor; it's got skill. And we present it really well.
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A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose.
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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.
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No other terms than unconditional and immediate surrender. I propose to move immediately upon your works.
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The big difference with Juliette and the others in that film is that she goes beyond acting.
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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.
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Anytime you're writing stories about a group of people with whom you have limited experience, there's a lot of guesswork.
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Sage's lightOh and EdisonHe made two sparks igniteAll you doIt's a scientific chain reaction
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Ich denke an dichte Fenster! Kein anderes Land kann so dichte und so schöne Fenster bauen.
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As we grow as unique persons, we learn to respect the uniqueness of others.
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As a Marvel fan who grew up with 'The Avengers' and 'Ant-Man' and everything, I definitely have my own sort of feelings about what I want to see as a fan in an 'Ant-Man' movie.
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We have a mental block inside us that stops us from earning more than we think we are worth. If we want to earn more in reality, we have to upgrade our self-concept.
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We're committed to giving the independent artists we support the best stage to share their mind-blowing work with audiences.
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I write from my stomach.
