Paul Thomas Anderson Quotes
I didn't have any desire I might have had 10 years ago to shoot every single word that I wrote.
Quotes to Explore
-
Was music my talent really? No, I don't think I was particularly talented.
-
I could not tell you the date of my mother's death. I could not tell you the date of my dad's death. These are not dates that I find significant.
-
I'm very proud to be a woman - you're part of a tribe. Automatically, you feel connected to another woman when you meet them. That's really special.
-
Not all my work features black actors. I mean, it's funny: someone was reading back to me all the languages that have appeared in my films, whether they were shorts or features. They span Arabic, French, Mandarin, Cantonese - all kinds of languages. I think it's really cool.
-
We have shown that it is possible to create a radioactivity characterized by the emission of positive or negative electrons in boron and magnesium by bombardment with alpha rays.
-
Your papers are marked when you go to school, but you can't mark the character.
-
My voice is not good enough for me to sing a song.
-
Jane Austen's characters for women are always very strong, opinionated and elegantly written, so they're always great for an actress to have a chance to do.
-
That you get booed belongs to professional sports.
-
I've learned about ice water in the morning - when you wake up tired, or you're jet lagged and you've been flying and your skin is dry, or you have puffy eyes - the ice water really helps cool the face down and helps circulation.
-
Love yourself instead of abusing yourself.
-
I am a certified yoga teacher and I love to cycle and swim.
-
I think any message behind a lifestyle brand should embrace everyone.
-
It's just a theory really, but I have always thought that your physical surroundings can shape your voice and personality.
-
When we look around the world today, when we see in Afghanistan that 10 million people have registered to vote in their upcoming elections, including 40 percent of those people are women, that's just unbelievable.
-
This is Earth. Isn't it hot?
-
Personally, becoming a mother has been such a rewarding and wonderful experience. However, at times it has also been a huge challenge. Even for me who has support at home that most mothers do not.
-
Decision making in a democracy depends above all on knowledge and not just the intel available to presidents and policymakers.
-
'Misunderstanding of the present is the inevitable consequence of ignorance of the past. But a man may wear himself out just as fruitlessly in seeking to understand the past, if he is totally ignorant of the present...This faculty of understanding the living is, in very truth, the master quality of the historian.'
-
Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
-
At one point, I had lost my confidence as an actor, and working again was tough. I started stammering due to lack of confidence. It took time, but things became better.
-
Follow in the footsteps of your fathers' virtue! How could you hope to climb high unless your fathers' will climbs with you?
-
When we begin to desire a thing, to yearn for it with all our hearts, we begin to establish relationship with it in proportion to the strength and persistency of our longing and intelligent effort to realize it.
-
I didn't have any desire I might have had 10 years ago to shoot every single word that I wrote.
