Paul Wesley Quotes
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What I felt was, if you spend your life just writing fiction, you are going to falsify your material. And the fictional form was going to force you to do things with the material, to dramatize it in a certain way. I thought nonfiction gave one a chance to explore the world, the other world, the world that one didn't know fully.
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In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.
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I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.
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To create something new is both thrilling and excruciating at the same time. It's great to have all these choices in front of you, and to have the writers in the room so you know exactly what they meant. But the downside is you want so badly not to screw it up!
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Our house is a constant mayhem of music, noise, socializing and business. It vibrates life, as a house should.
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I love cooking and baking.
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I've done a lot of practical anthropology, living in villages with people and realizing how difficult it is to get out of poverty. When in poverty, people use their skill to avoid hunger. They can't use it for progress.
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I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.
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There are lots of films I wish stopped at installment number one. I like 'Back to the Future Part II' and 'Part III' enough, but I still like the ending of the first one better.
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Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out.
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I influence people, hopefully on the positive side.
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Earth's dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence, division, and intellectual isolation.
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I think you're attracted to things that are different from yourself in a character because it's more interesting, and you get to play out a fantasy version of yourself.
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The intensity of being in front of all these incredible musicians and tremendous conductors in these elaborate halls can be overwhelming.
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I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.
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I believe that misconceptions about oneself that one does not correct where possible act as a bad magic.
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The Marine Corps is supposed to be the toughest and most rigorous of its class.
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I read neither good nor bad about me. I let it not even in my life, so it has no effect on me. I am very sensitive.
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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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Our rational minds often attempt to minimise or negate the mystical encounters. We forget the power of our experiences. We must embrace the reality of that event, which is a miracle.
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I want to be a knight, as my father was.
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We're the only major company in the U.S. that is solely in the professional beauty industry. We promised hairdressers when we started that we would stay with them. If I went retail tomorrow then we would be four times our size overnight, but I'm going to be the one guy who kept his word.
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It's so funny: I sort of fell into genre roles, but I'm not really a genre guy.
