Paul Allen Quotes
In my experience, each failure contains the seeds of your next success-if you are willing to learn from it.
Quotes to Explore
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I used to sing in jazz clubs with a friend until she went another way.
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Los Angeles is a city known as much for it's sun as for its stars and it's dirty air.
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I personally do not drink. To drink or not to is one's own choice. So long as it doesn't affect others, it is okay.
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My job is to train hard, go fight, and do my best.
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If you're a good choice maker, you can choose the best emotional responses and choose the best new life paths, forward and upward.
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I'm very privy to the way bookstores work, and I think a lot about the ecosystem that my books have been published in. I think it's great to be aware of how publishing works.
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I think if I heard someone else talking about their life, describing all the problems I've had, they'd look like they were through. Done. But there's something about me - I'm smiling. Those things are really not bad enough to put me in a slump. I'm smiling with the opportunity to wake up every morning.
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Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
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I'm trying to write a TV show. Ideally it would be just a reality-TV show, getting the guy who played Eddie Winslow and Kirk Cameron to live in a house. The Jehovah's Witnesses would come to the house a lot or something like that. I kind of like the idea of Scientologists and Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses trying to convert Kirk Cameron.
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With Spotify, people don't get it until they try it. Then they tell their friends.
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I do think people are definitely sick of the Kardashians.
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Where I live, nobody who's fourteen is having sex and doing major drugs. And I think if you see it in the movies, you may be influenced by it. I think it's so important to preserve your innocence.
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I don't like the showy nationalism - a tattoo, wrapping yourself in a flag - that doesn't matter to me. The way to show your patriotism and commitment is to go and support or play for your team.
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When I was 5, I wore a tie, and I wanted to change my name to Larry, which probably tipped my parents off that I was gay.
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There is but one honest limit to the rights of a sentient being; it is where they touch the rights of another sentient being.
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The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.
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People win Oscars, and then it seems like they fall off the planet. And that's partly because a huge expectation walks in the room and sits right down on top of your head. The moment I won the Oscar, I felt the teardown the very next day.
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The Irish job was something that had to be sorted out.
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It is simple nonsense to speak of the fixed tempo of any particular vocal phrase. Each voice has its peculiarities.
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When the gun fires you must concentrate for every second on the way to that finish line. You should know exactly how long it will take you to and think about every step of the race you are about to run.
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I like to call up ghosts of things past for myself when I'm working a lot.
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When you're playing someone who really lived, you carry a burden, a burden to be accurate. But it's one that you have to let go of ultimately.
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I was born very, very lazy and I don't always practice very long. but I must say, in my defense, that it is not so good, in a musical way, to overpractice. When you do, the music seems to come out of your pocket. If you play with a feeling of 'Oh, I know this,' you play without that little drop of fresh blood that is necessary – and the audience feels it.
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In my experience, each failure contains the seeds of your next success-if you are willing to learn from it.
