Paul Weller Quotes
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It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves no sugar-plum at the day's end, but is content to accept life and serve society as best it may.
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Wes Anderson deserves an award for sheer persistence of vision.
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I believe that movies are fast becoming antique and dinosauric as a medium. Film is a medium for the over-40s and television has gone the same way. If you're going to look towards the new generation, then of course you're going to have to be a lot more random, spontaneous, irreverent and provocative with your programming.
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You see, O Greeks! The enemy already acknowledge the country to be ours; for when they made peace with us, they stipulated that we should not burn the country belonging to the king, and now they set fire to it themselves, as if they looked upon it no longer as their own.
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Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
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I'm not likely to forget where I've been and what I've done and learned. I think it's just as important to play new instruments as to play new pieces. The old ones are getting scarcer and the new ones more and more wonderful.
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I smoke, isn't that terrible?
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I didn't make any friends in New York by insisting on moving the league headquarters to Cincinnati. The fact was that my son Bill was in school. His mother had passed away, and I didn't want to take the boy away from his school and to a strange city.
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Feeling really safe as an actor is not a great thing because you're not learning or growing.
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At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.
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In a lot of ways, I envy someone like Omar Sharif who lived in a hotel for decades.
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All of world's eyes are trained on the Games. So winning at that stage is heroic. It is a different feeling altogether and cannot be explained in words.
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Speaking is physically difficult for me.
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I think the key to a great romcom is to not fight against the genre. The trend more recently has been to apologise or be snarky, so it's an anti-romcom. Just lean in and embrace the fact it's a love story, and it's funny, and it's light. It can still be uber-smart and deal with zeitgeist issues.
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I even lived on campus to get the college experience. I had five roommates and I still keep in touch with them while I'm on the road.
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If you saw pictures of me as a kid, you'd laugh because I was always in football kit.
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What works for a man, still does not work for a woman - both in terms of how they see themselves and how we see them.
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In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
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I've always adored my father's music, but ever since I'd started singing, whether it was while I was still a student at the University of Massachusetts or professionally, I avoided Dad's material.
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A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.
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I've made four films about the destructive nature of relationships, of secrets and lies, and I think I'm no longer interested in that subject - which is a wonderful relief.
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Most Americans actually need to have both people working, and it's a luxury and something to celebrate if you can make a choice like this. And this choice isn't for everyone. But it's nice to not have to worry about what time does daycare close.
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I don't mean to offend anybody, but I think that we get a lot of scientists now who are bent into a system, and we lose some of their boldness by that. Obviously, you have to learn the ropes, but I think it's important to do that without hammering out the radicalness that makes innovation happen.
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It is nice to make a record and people like it, and it's encouraging.
