Paul Westerberg Quotes
I have my own language and it's high time I put a little of it out there.
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I think Dilbert is actually a radical strip.
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I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.
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They think my life is glamourous. It's not true. I obviously get to come in and do radio interviews. That's the glamour. But other than that, I eat and sleep and that's it. Eat, sleep and do shows.
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When you're in your 20s, your 30s, even, you have - at least, I had - vast ambitions, and you sit around mooning about these things, and you're depressed, because you haven't done them. And it takes you a long time to come to the realization that if you can't be John Updike, well, then, you can't.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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Patents have a place in medical science - for new inventions that advance the state of knowledge.
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There seems to be this impression that if I really am a psychotherapist, I can't be serious about it. They think there must be something fishy going on.
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Every day you wake up is an opportunity to go beyond, and that 's why I let my band go right now. For the first time in my life I'm just roaming around, vagabonding.
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From my side, there was no acceptance to this fact that I am any less than anyone around me. So there was a certain discomfort that I felt growing up that I am not seen as I want to be seen as.
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I try to be really conscious. I don't want to ever look back and regret not raising my kids and not being around.
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Democratic leaders, whose power is ultimately dependent on popular support, are held accountable for failing to improve the lives of their citizens. Therefore, they have a powerful incentive to keep their societies peaceful and prosperous.
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It's not so much knowing when to speak, when to pause.
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There are writers in Germany who drink the Absolute like water; and there are books in which even the dogs make references to the Infinite.
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When you work somewhere and you feel comfortable, you don't want to leave. You want to stay there forever.
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The world is equally shocked at hearing Christianity criticized and seeing it practiced.
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I think maybe because I do other things and they mean as much to me as movie acting, it takes the onus off me. It's not the end of the world if I can't get a film job, or if a movie doesn't turn out well - even though I don't like it when that happens.
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I live between Barcelona and Berlin. Staying in Spain over the winter and Berlin for spring and summer is an ideal combination.
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My plan is to have a theatre in some small town or something and I'll be manager. Ill be the crazy old movie guy.
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Then finally I said, 'Okay, well, I want to know all the details. I want creative input. I want to be consulted. I want to know what they're doing and who's involved. And I want to see the space.' So they took me to see it, and then I realized it was major! All these red flags on the Rue de Rivoli with my name on them right by the Louvre!
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When I was larger, people said I was fat. Now that I've lost weight, they say I died.
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All the jokes in my films, the comedy, they're not me, I just try to hold a big mirror up to us.
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No Roman ever was able to say, 'I dined last night with the Borgias'.
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I have my own language and it's high time I put a little of it out there.
