Paul Thomas Anderson Quotes

My writing has a lot to do with who I am, and what my life is like, and my relationships to people.

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• The sweeping, unfocused cuts of sequestration are certain to have unintended negative consequences, including for America's small businesses.

  

  Sam Graves
  • America
  • Small
  • Negative

• I don't spend a lot on holidays, but have been very fortunate to travel extensively through doing various challenges around the world. The best place I've ever been is Argentina.

  

  Ian McKeever
  • World
  • Best
  • Travel

• Drama is easier to do because you just have to have the emotion and not get caught acting, but comedy is much harder.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • You
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• Although the evidence at this trial shows that Charles Manson was the leader of the conspiracy to commit these murders, there is no evidence that he actually personally killed any of the seven victims in this case.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Leader
  • Evidence
  • Conspiracy

• I like to be underdressed rather than overdressed. For an event or a premiere, it's fun to dress up more - then I like to experiment.

  

  Gabriella Wilde
  • Up
  • Fun
  • Dress

• An election in which people have to wait 10 hours to vote, or in which black voters wait in the rain for hours, while white voters zip through polling places, is unworthy of the world's leading democracy.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • People
  • World
  • Black

• Community colleges are one of America's great social inventions a gateway to the future for first time students looking for an affordable college education, and for mid-career students looking to get ahead in the workplace.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • Time
  • Great
  • America

• If the artists would just keep hammering away - unify, stick together - then music will become the king again, which is what it should be.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Music
  • Together
  • King

• There comes a point in nearly every book event I've done when a little feminist revolt stirs inside the crowd.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Done
  • Book
  • Feminist

• I really don't know the secret to it, but I'd like to think my desirability is a combination of my personality, my image, and, most importantly, the kind of films I do.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Know
  • Kind
  • Personality

• The thought that all experience will be lost at the moment of my death makes me feel pain and fear... What a waste, decades spent building up experience, only to throw it all away... We remedy this sadness by working. For example, by writing, painting, or building cities.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Experience

• Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices parted ways.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Work
  • Art
  • Design

• I don't have cable. I just never watched a lot of TV.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Never
  • Just
  • Watched

• Race and class are extremely reliable indicators as to where one might find the good stuff, like parks and trees, and where one might find the bad stuff, like power plants and waste facilities.

  

  Majora Carter
  • Good
  • Power
  • Bad

• There are certain songs that just stick around and do something that transcends whatever time they were written in. Through different eras, people are able to impart different meaning to the song, and they become part of some sort of consciousness.

  

  Beck
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• Warwick Davies is a cracking actor. The opening scene in the last 'Harry Potter' film, where he plays a captured Griphook, is mesmerising. His pacing is sublime, and the menace and regret he builds into the scene is fantastic.

  

  Ian Watson
  • Actor
  • Regret
  • Opening

• I just wanted to defend football, which is not always easy to do. Those of us who have been in the sport so many years now realise we must protect it and look after it. I was speaking about football, what it means. It is our profession, it has been our lives, and we must take care of it a little.

  

  Vicente del Bosque
  • Football
  • Care
  • Easy

• I love brawling, but I'm a smart fighter.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Love
  • Smart
  • Fighter

• The 'PBS NewsHour' podcast is the audio version of the nightly TV broadcast.

  

  David Hepworth

• Demosthenes told Phocion, 'The Athenians will kill you some day when they once are in a rage.' 'And you,' said he, 'if they are once in their senses.'

  

  Plutarch

• A neurotic can perfectly well be a literary genius, but his greatest danger is always that he will not recognize when he is dull.

  

  Louis Auchincloss

• I live up Laurel Canyon, and if I want to walk with my son, I have to drive to the park, which is so insane to me.

  

  James Gray
  • Up
  • Live
  • Son

• Band chemistry is a tricky thing. If one guy isn't feeling right with the other guys, everything gets thrown off. When you get the personalities and the chemistry right, that's a grand slam.

  

  Les Claypool
  • Guy
  • Feeling
  • Band

• My writing has a lot to do with who I am, and what my life is like, and my relationships to people.

  

  Paul Thomas Anderson
  • People
  • Life
  • Writing